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