List of inventions named after people

 ( Lists Of Eponyms ) 

This is a list of followed by name of the inventor (or whomever else it is named after). For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see Lists of etymologies.

• Abney level – William de Wiveleslie Abney
• Signal lamp – Arthur Cyril Webb Aldis
• Aldrin – Kurt Alder
• Alexanderson alternator – Ernst Alexanderson
• Algorithm – Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
• Anderson shelter – John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
• Anderton Shearer Loader – James Anderton
• Appertization – Nicolas Appert
• Archimedes' screw – Archimedes
• Argand lamp – Aimé Argand
• Armstrong breech-loading gun – William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong
• Armstrong's acid – Henry Edward Armstrong
• Austenite – William Chandler Roberts-Austen
• Auston switch – David H. Auston
• Avtomat Kalashnikova (AK-47) – Mikhail Kalashnikov
• Bailey bridge – Donald Bailey
• Bakelite – Leo Baekeland
• Barker code – Ronald Hugh Barker
• Barlow lens – Barlow's wheel – Peter Barlow
• Bath Oliver – William Oliver
• Beaufort scale – Francis Beaufort
• Beecham's Pills – Thomas Beecham
• Belisha beacon – Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha
• Benedict's reagent – Stanley Rossiter Benedict
• Benson raft – Simon Benson
• Bessemer process – Henry Bessemer
• Billinghurst Requa Battery – William Billinghurst and Josephus Requa
• Birch gun – Noel Birch
• Bird's Custard – Alfred Bird
• Biro – László Bíró
• Blacker Bombard – Stewart Blacker
• Bloomers – Amelia Bloomer
• Botts' dots – Elbert Dysart Botts
• Bourdon gauge – Eugène Bourdon
• Bowden cable – Ernest Monnington Bowden
• Bowie knife – James Bowie
• Bowler hat – Thomas and William Bowler
• Bradshaw's Railway Guide – George Bradshaw
• Braille – Louis Braille
• Hydraulic press – Joseph Bramah
• Brannock device – Charles F. Brannock
• Brennan torpedo – Louis Brennan
• Brougham – Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
• M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle – John Browning
• Büchner funnel, Büchner flask – Ernst Büchner
• Bunsen burner – Robert Bunsen
• Burr Arch Truss – Theodore Burr
• Callanetics – Callan Pinckney
• Cardigan – James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan
• Carnot cycle, Carnot heat engine – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
• Cassegrain telescope – Laurent Cassegrain
• Breaking wheel – Catherine of Alexandria
• Chippendale chair, Chippendale furniture – Thomas Chippendale
• Clerihew – Edmund Clerihew Bentley
• Coade stone – Eleanor Coade
• Codd-neck bottle – Hiram Codd
• Coddington magnifier – Henry Coddington
• Colt Paterson – Samuel Colt
• Column still – Aeneas Coffey
• Congreve rocket – Sir William Congreve, 1st Baronet
• Spinning mule – Samuel Crompton
• Crookes tube – William Crookes
• Cunningham – Briggs Cunningham
• Daguerreotype – Louis Daguerre
• Dalén light – Gustaf Dalén
• Daly detector – Norman Richard Daly
• Daniell cell – John Frederic Daniell
• Davenport desk – Captain John Davenport
• Davis Gun – Cleland Davis
• Davy lamp – Humphry Davy
• Derrick – Thomas Derrick
• Derringer – Henry Deringer
• Vacuum flask – James Dewar
• Diesel engine, diesel fuel – Rudolf Diesel
• Dimroth condenser – Otto Dimroth
• Divers's solution – Edward Divers
• Dr. Martens – Klaus Märtens
• Dolby noise-reduction system – Ray Dolby
• Doppler radar – Christian Doppler
• Draisine – Karl Drais
• Edison effect (Thermionic emission) – Thomas Edison
• Edison screw – Thomas Edison
• Ehrlich's reagent – Paul Ehrlich
• Éolienne Bollée – Ernest Sylvain Bollée
• Ericsson engine – John Ericsson
• Erlenmeyer flask – Emil Erlenmeyer
• Euclidean geometry – Euclid
• Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife – William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric Anthony Sykes
• Faraday cage – Michael Faraday
• Farrimond friction hitch – Barry Farrimond
• Ferris wheel – George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.
• Flinders bar – Matthew Flinders
• Foley catheter – Frederic Foley
• Foucault pendulum – Léon Foucault
• Francis turbine – James B. Francis
• Franklin stove – Benjamin Franklin
• French drain - Henry F. French
• Fresnel lens – Augustin-Jean Fresnel
• Friedrichs condenser – Fritz Walter Paul Friedrichs
• Frost Airship Glider – William Frost

• IMI Galil – Yisrael Galil
• Gallup Poll – George Gallup
• Galvanometer, galvanic cell – Luigi Galvani
• Garand – John Garand
• Gatling gun – Richard Jordan Gatling
• Gatso – Maus Gatsonides
• Geiger counter – Hans Geiger
• Geiger–Müller tube – Hans Geiger and Walther Müller
• George Foreman Grill – George Foreman
• Safety razor – King Camp Gillette
• Gladstone bag – William Ewart Gladstone
• Sodium sulfate – Johann Rudolf Glauber
• Gore-Tex – Bill Gore
• Graham condenser – Thomas D. Graham
• Graham cracker – Rev Sylvester Graham
• Gramme dynamo – Zénobe Gramme
• Gregorian telescope – James Gregory
• Guillotine – Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
• Gurney Stove – Goldsworthy Gurney
• Halkett boat – Peter Halkett
• Hallidie ropeway – Andrew Smith Hallidie
• Halligan bar – Hugh Halligan
• Hammond organ – Laurens Hammond
• Heimlich Maneuver – Henry Heimlich
• Hele-Shaw clutch – Henry Selby Hele-Shaw
• Henry rifle – Benjamin Tyler Henry
• Higgins boat – Andrew Higgins
• Hobbs Meter – John Weston Hobbs
• Holter Monitor – Norman Holter
• Hoover – William Henry Hoover
• Horlicks – James and William Horlick
• Horsley–Clarke apparatus – Victor Horsley and Robert H. Clarke
• Horstmann suspension – Sidney Horstmann
• Howell torpedo – John Adams Howell
• Humphrey pump – H. A. Humphrey
• Hutchinson Patent Stopper – Charles G. Hutchinson
• Inglis Bridge – Charles Inglis
• Jacuzzi – Candido Jacuzzi
• Jacquard loom – Joseph Marie Jacquard
• Josephson effect – Brian David Josephson
• Kalashnikov – Mikhail Kalashnikov
• Kaplan turbine – Viktor Kaplan
• Flying shuttle – John Kay
• Kégresse track – Adolphe Kégresse
• Kelvin bridge – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
• Ketchum Grenade – William F. Ketchum
• Kilner jar – John Kilner
• Kipp's apparatus – Petrus Jacobus Kipp
• Krarup cable – Carl Emil Krarup
• Land Camera – Edwin H. Land
• Langmuir probe – Irving Langmuir
• Leigh light – Humphrey de Verd Leigh
• Leotard – Jules Léotard
• Leslie speaker – Donald Leslie
• Lewis gun – Isaac Newton Lewis
• Littlejohn adaptor – František Janeček
• Loganberry – James Harvey Logan
• Lyot filter, Lyot stop and Lyot depolarizer – Bernard Lyot
• Macadam, Tarmacadam – John Loudon McAdam
• Machmeter – Ernst Mach
• Mackintosh – Charles Macintosh
• Mae West – Mae West
• Mallet's Mortar – Robert Mallet
• Manby Mortar – George William Manby
• Mansard roof – François Mansart
• Bermuda rig – Guglielmo Marconi
• Mason jar – John Landis Mason
• Masonite - William H. Mason
• Mausoleum – Mausolus
• Maxim gun – Hiram Stevens Maxim
• McCormick reaper – Cyrus McCormick
• Melba toast, Peach Melba, Melba sauce – Nellie Melba
• Carronade –
• Mercator projection – Gerardus Mercator
• Mercerised cotton – John Mercer
• Michelson interferometer – Albert Abraham Michelson
• Mills bomb – William Mills
• Minié ball, Minié rifle – Claude-Étienne Minié,
• Molotov cocktail – Vyacheslav Molotov
• Momsen Lung, Charles B. Momsen
• Moog synthesizer – Robert Moog
• Morse code – Samuel Morse
• Muntz metal – George Frederic Muntz
• Murphy bed – William Lawrence Murphy

• Napier's bones – John Napier
• Newcomen steam engine – Thomas Newcomen
• Newtonian telescope – Isaac Newton
• Newton's Cradle – Isaac Newton
• Nissen hut – Peter Norman Nissen
• Nordenfelt gun – Thorsten Nordenfelt
• Northrop Loom – James Henry Northrop
• Odhner Arithmometer – Willgodt Theophil Odhner
• Odón device – Jorge Odón
• Ormerod link – Edward Ormerod
• Ostwald viscometer – Wilhelm Ostwald
• Owen submachine gun – Evelyn Owen
• Parkesine – Alexander Parkes
• Pasteurization – Louis Pasteur
• Patchett gun – George William Patchett
• Pavlova – Anna Pavlova
• Payne's grey – William Payne
• Peavey – Joseph Peavey
• Pelton turbine – Lester Allan Pelton
• Penning trap – Frans Michel Penning
• Petri dish – Julius Richard Petri
• Phillips screw – Henry F. Phillips
• Pilates – Joseph Pilates
• Pimm's – James Pimm
• Pinchbeck – Christopher Pinchbeck
• Pintsch gas – Julius Pintsch
• Pitman shorthand – Isaac Pitman
• Pitot tube – Henri Pitot
• Plimsoll line – Samuel Plimsoll
• Prince Rupert's Drop – Prince Rupert of the Rhine
• Pulaski – Ed Pulaski
• Loading coil – Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
• Puretic power block – Mario Puratić
• Prusik – Karl Prusik
• Raglan sleeve – Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan Oxford English Dictionary Third edition, (2008) online version September 2011, accessed 7 November 2011. An entry for this word was first included in New English Dictionary, 1903.
• Raman spectroscopy – C. V. Raman
• Rawlplug – John Joseph Rawlings
• Richter magnitude scale – Charles Francis Richter
• Ripley machine gun – Ezra Ripley
• Rorschach test – Hermann Rorschach
• Rozière balloon – Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier
• Rubik's Cube – Ernő Rubik
• Rumford fireplace – Benjamin Thompson
• Salk vaccine – Jonas Salk
• Salter's duck – Stephen Salter
• Sam Browne belt – Sam Browne
• Sandwich – Earl of Sandwich
• Savery engine – Thomas Savery
• Saxophone – Adolphe Sax
• Scavenger's daughter – Leonard Skeffington (or Skevington)
• Scheele's Green – Carl Wilhelm Scheele
• Schick test – Béla Schick
• Shrapnel shell – Henry Shrapnel
• Sousaphone – John Philip Sousa
• Southern blot – Edwin Southern
• Soyer stove – Alexis Soyer
• Spragg Bag – Terry Spragg
• Sprengel explosives, Sprengel Pump – Hermann Sprengel
• Stabinger viscometer – Hans Stabinger
• Stanhope – Henry FitzRoy Stanhope
• Stark spectroscopy – Johannes Stark
• Stelzer engine – Frank Stelzer
• Stephenson's Rocket - Robert Stephenson
• Sten – Reginald V. Shepherd, Harold Turpin, Enfield
• Stetson – John Batterson Stetson
• Stiefografie – Helmut Stief
• Pipe wrench – Daniel Chapman Stillson
• Stirling engine – Rev. Robert Stirling
• Stockbridge damper – George H. Stockbridge
• Stokes mortar – Wilfred Stokes
• Strowger switch – Almon Brown Strowger
• Swallow float – John C. Swallow

• Taj Mahal - Mumtaz Mahal
• Tesla coil, Tesla turbine – Nikola Tesla
• Theremin – Léon Theremin
• Thompson submachine gun – John T. Thompson
• Tobin tax — James Tobin
• Tupperware – Earl Silas Tupper
• Ubbelohde viscometer – Leo Ubbelohde
• Uzi – Uziel Gal
• Venn diagram – John Venn
• Vernier scale – Pierre Vernier
• Very pistol, Very flare – Edward Wilson Very
• Vigreux column – Henri Vigreux
• Voltaic pile – Alessandro Volta
• Wagner tuba – Richard Wagner
• Wankel engine – Felix Wankel
• Wardian case – Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward
• Waterhouse stop – John Waterhouse
• Watt's linkage & Watt steam engine – James Watt
• Wedgwood – Josiah Wedgwood
• Welin breech block – Axel Welin
• Wellington boot – Duke of Wellington
• Wells turbine – Alan Arthur Wells
• Westinghouse air brake – George Westinghouse
• Weston cell – Edward Weston
• Wheatstone bridge – Charles Wheatstone
• Whitehead Torpedo – Robert Whitehead
• Whitworth thread – Joseph Whitworth
• Wiegand effect – John R. Wiegand
• Wilhelmy plate – Ludwig Wilhelmy
• Cloud chamber – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
• Winchester rifle – Oliver Winchester
• Windsor knot – Edward VII of the United Kingdom
• Winogradsky column – Sergei Winogradsky
• Wollaston landscape lens – William Hyde Wollaston
• Wollaston wire – William Hyde Wollaston
• Woodruff key – W.N. Woodruff
• Wood's glass – Robert W. Wood
• Yablochkov candle – Pavel Yablochkov
• Yale lock – Linus Yale, Jr.
• Ice resurfacer – Frank Zamboni
• Zamboni pile – Giuseppe Zamboni
• Zeppelin – Ferdinand von Zeppelin

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