This is a list of famous inventions followed by name of the inventor (or whom it is named after).  

• 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
• 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
• Diesel engine – Rudolf Diesel
• Dolby noise reduction system – Ray Dolby
• Doppler radar – Christian Doppler (see also: Doppler effect)
• 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
• 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
• Gobelin – Gobelin family
• Gore-Tex – Wilbert 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.
• 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
• Kao's rings – a junction termination structure invented by Yu Kao and used in some types of high voltage power semiconductor devices
• 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
• Macadamroad – 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
• 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 – Mihajlo Pupin
• Prusik knot – Karl Prusik
• Raman spectroscopy – C. V. Raman
• Richter magnitude scale – Charles Richter
• Rubik's Cube – Ernő Rubik
• 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 – Pierre Vernier
• 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

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