List of inventions named after people

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

The list

A to G

* Archimedes' screw – Archimedes
* Argand lamp – Ami Argand
* Armstrong breech-loading gun – William George Armstrong
* Bakelite – Leo Baekeland
* Becquerel radioactivity unit – Henri Becquerel
* Bessemer converter – Henry Bessemer
* Biro, (ballpoint pen) – Laszlo Biro
* Blacker Bombard; Lt Col Blacker
* Bowie knife – Jim Bowie
* Braille – Louis Braille
* Browning firearms, including the Browning Automatic Rifle – John Browning
* Bunsen burner – Robert Bunsen
* Carnot cycle, Carnot heat engine – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
* Colt revolver – Samuel Colt
* Coffey still – Aeneas Coffey
* Cunningham (downhaul) – Briggs Swift Cunningham II
* Daguerreotype – Jacques Daguerre
* Davy lamp – Humphry Davy
* Dewar flask - James Dewar
* Daniell cell – John Frederic Daniell
* Diesel engine – Rudolf Diesel
* Dolby noise reduction system – Ray Dolby
* Doppler radar – Christian Doppler ("see also": Doppler effect)
* Ericsson cycle heat engine – John Ericsson
* Erlenmeyer flask – Richard Erlenmeyer
* Ferris wheel – George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr.
* Foucault pendulum – Jean Bernard Léon Foucault
* Franklin stove – Benjamin Franklin
* Fresnel lens – Augustin-Jean Fresnel
* Galil assault rifle – Israel Galili
* Galvanic cell – Luigi Galvani
* Gatling gun – Richard J. Gatling
* Gatsometer – Maurice Gatsonides
* Geiger counter – Hans Geiger
* Geiger-Müller tube – Hans Geiger and Walther Müller
* M1 Garand rifle – John Garand
* Gillette safety razor – King C. Gillette
* Glauber's salt – Johann Rudolf Glauber
* Gore-Tex – Bill Gore
* Guillotine – Joseph-Ignace Guillotin did not invent the guillotine, but proposed the use of the mechanical device to carry out death penalties in France.

H to Q

* Hallidie ropeway – Andrew Smith Hallidie
* Halligan bar – Hugh Halligan
* Hammond Organ – Laurens Hammond
* Hutchinson Patent Stopper – Charles G. Hutchinson
* Jacquard loom – Joseph Marie Jacquard
* Josephson junction – Brian David Josephson
* Kalashnikov guns (eg the AK-47) – Mikhail Kalashnikov
* Kipp's apparatus – Petrus Jacobus Kipp
* Land Camera – Edwin H. Land
* Leigh light – Humphry de Verde Leigh
* Macadam road – John Loudon McAdam
* Mae West inflatable life jacket – named after actress Mae West
* Macintosh (the waterproof coat) - Charles Macintosh
* Marconi rig (sloop) – Guglielmo Marconi - a satiric reference to complicated spreaders and shrouds that had the appearance of radio antennas of the time.
* Mason jar – John Mason
* Maxim gun – Hiram Maxim
* Melba sauce, Peach Melba and Melba toast – Dame Nelly Melba
* Molotov cocktail – invented by the Finnish army, and named after Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet Minister of War
* Monkey Wrench - Charles Moncky
* Moog synthesizer – Robert Moog
* Morse code – Samuel Morse
* Owen gun – Evo Owen.
* Pavlova – Anna Pavlova
* Pasteurization – Louis Pasteur
* Patchett gun
* Peavey (tool) – Joseph Peavey
* Petri dish – Julius Richard Petri
* Pulaski (tool) – Ed Pulaski
* Pupin coil – Michael I. Pupin
* Prusik knot – Karl Prusik

R to Z

* Raman spectroscopy – C. V. Raman
* Richter magnitude scale – Charles Richter
* Rubik's Cube – Ernő Rubik
* Rumford fireplace – Count Rumford
* Sandwich – Earl of Sandwich
* Saxophone – Adolphe Sax, Belgian music instrument designer
* Shrapnel shell – Henry Shrapnel
* Schick test – Béla Schick
* Sousaphone – John Philip Sousa
* Soyer stove - Alexis Soyer
* Stark spectroscopy – Johannes Stark
* Sten gun - Shepherd, Turpin (and their employer RSAF Enfield)
* Stirling engine – Rev. Robert Stirling
* Strowger switch (part of the first automatic telephone exchange) – Almon Strowger
* Thompson submachine gun – John T. Thompson
* Tesla coil – Nikola Tesla
* Tesla turbine – Nikola Tesla
* Theremin – Leon Theremin
* Uzi submachine gun – Uziel Gal
* Vernier scale – Pierre Vernier
* Voltaic pile – Alessandro Volta
* Wagner tuba – Richard Wagner
* Wankel engine – Felix Wankel
* Wedgwood porcelain – Wedgwood family
* Wellington boot – Duke of Wellington
* Westinghouse air brake – George Westinghouse
* Winchester repeating rifle – named after chief investor Oliver F. Winchester
* Zeppelin – Ferdinand von Zeppelin

ee also

* List of inventions
* List of inventors
* List of scientists
* Lists of etymologies
* Scientific phenomena named after people