This is a list of inventions 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.
The list A to F
Abney level – William de Wiveleslie Abney Aldis 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 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 – Sir 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 converter – 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 Bramah 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 Catherine 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 revolver – Samuel Colt Coffey still – Aeneas Coffey Congreve rocket – Sir William Congreve, 1st Baronet Crompton's 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 Dewar 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
G to M
Galil – Yisrael Galil Gallup Poll – George Gallup Galvanometer, galvanic cell – Luigi Galvani Garand – John Garand Gatling gun – Richard Jordan Gatling Gatso cameras – Maus Gatsonides Geiger counter – Hans Geiger Geiger–Müller tube – Hans Geiger and Walther Müller George Foreman Grill – George Foreman Gillette safety razor – King Camp Gillette Gladstone bag – William Ewart Gladstone Glauber's salt – Johann Rudolf Glauber Glock Pistol — Gaston Glock 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 junction – Brian David Josephson Kalashnikov – Mikhail Kalashnikov Kaplan turbine – Viktor Kaplan Kay's 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, tarmac – 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 Marconi 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 Melvillade – Robert Melville 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
N to S
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 Pupin coil – Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin Puretic power block – Mario Puratić Prusik – Karl Prusik Raglan sleeve – Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron RaglanOxford 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 Snellen chart – Herman Snellen 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 Stillson 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
T to Z
Taj Mahal – Mumtaz Mahal Taser – Tom Swift electric rifle 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 porcelain – Wedgwood family 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 wire – John R. Wiegand Wilhelmy plate – Ludwig Wilhelmy Wilson 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. Zamboni – Frank Zamboni Zamboni pile – Giuseppe Zamboni Zeppelin – Ferdinand von Zeppelin
See also List of inventors List of inventors killed by their own inventions List of inventions named after places Timeline of historic inventions List of scientists Lists of etymologies Scientific phenomena named after people List of named inorganic compounds
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