Inventions named after people

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 L?on 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-M?ller tube ? Hans Geiger and Walther M?ller
• 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 ? B?la 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