The story
William Hampson and Carl von Linde independently filed for patent of the cycle in 1895.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hampson-Linde cycle
Today it means: A cycle employed in the liquefaction of gases, especially for air separation. It is essentially the same as the Siemens cycle, except in the expansion step: where the Siemens cycle has the gas do external work to reduce its temperature, the Hampson-Linde cycle relies solely on the Joule-Thomson effect, so the cold side needs no moving parts. Full definition →