List of inventions named after people

A to F

Abney level – William de Wiveleslie Abney

Appertization – Nicolas Appert

Aldis lamp – Arthur Cyril Webb Aldis

Aldrin – Kurt Alder

Algorithm - Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

Alexanderson alternator – Ernst Alexanderson

Archimedes' screw – Archimedes

Anderson shelter – John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley

Anderton Shearer Loader – James Anderton

Argand lamp – Aimé Argand

Armstrong's acid – Henry Edward Armstrong

Austenite – William Chandler Roberts-Austen

Avtomat Kalashnikova (AK-47) – Mikhail Kalashnikov

Armstrong breech-loading gun – William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong

Bailey bridge – Donald Bailey

Barlow lens, Barlow's wheel – Peter Barlow

Bath Oliver – William Oliver

Bakelite – Leo Baekeland

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

Bird's Custard – Alfred Bird

Biro – László Bíró

Birch Gun – Noel Birch

Blacker Bombard – Stewart Blacker

Bloomers – Amelia Bloomer

Botts' dots – Elbert Dysart Botts

Bourdon gauge - Eugene Bourdon

Bowie knife – James Bowie

Bowden cable – Ernest Monnington Bowden

Bowler hat – Thomas and William Bowler

Bradshaw's Railway Guide – George Bradshaw

Brannock Device – Charles F. Brannock

Braille – Louis Braille

Bramah Press – Joseph Bramah

Brennan torpedo – Louis Brennan

M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle – John Browning

Büchner funnel, Büchner flask – Ernst Büchner

Brougham – Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

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

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

Crookes tube – William Crookes

Crompton's mule – Samuel Crompton

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

Derringer – Henry Deringer

Derrick – Thomas Derrick

Dewar flask – James Dewar

Diesel engine & Diesel fuel – Rudolf Diesel

Dimroth condenser – Otto Dimroth

Dr. Martens – Klaus Märtens

Dolby noise-reduction system – Ray Dolby

Doppler radar – Christian Doppler

Draisine – Karl Drais

Thermionic emission (Edison effect) – Thomas Edison

Edison screw – Thomas Edison

Éolienne Bollée – Ernest Sylvain Bollée

Ericsson engine – John Ericsson

Ehrlich's reagent – Paul Ehrlich

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

Fresnel lens – Augustin-Jean Fresnel

Friedrichs condenser – Fritz Walter Paul Friedrichs

Frost Airship Glider – William Frost

G to M

IMI Galil – Yisrael Galil

Gallup Poll – George Gallup

Galvanometer, Galvanic cell – Luigi Galvani

Gatling gun – Richard Jordan Gatling

Gatso cameras – Maus Gatsonides

Geiger counter – Hans Geiger

Geiger–Müller tube – Hans Geiger and Walther Müller

M1 Garand – John Garand

George Foreman Grill – George Foreman

Gillette safety razor – King Camp Gillette

Gladstone bag – William Ewart Gladstone

Glauber's salt – Johann Rudolf Glauber

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

Horlicks – James and William Horlick

Hoover – William Henry Hoover

Horsley–Clarke apparatus – Victor Horsley and Robert H. Clarke

Horstmann suspension – Sidney Horstmann

Howell torpedo – John Adams Howell

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

Mae West – Mae West

Machmeter – Ernst Mach

Mackintosh – Charles Macintosh

Mansard roof – François Mansart

Marconi rig – Guglielmo Marconi

Mallet's Mortar – Robert Mallet

Manby Mortar – George William Manby

Mason jar – John Landis Mason

Mausoleum – Mausolus

Maxim gun – Hiram Stevens Maxim

McCormick reaper – Cyrus McCormick

Mercator projection – Gerardus Mercator

Mercerised cotton – John Mercer

Michelson interferometer – Albert Abraham Michelson

Mills bomb – William Mills

Minié ball, Minié rifle – Claude-Étienne Minié

Momsen Lung, Charles B. Momsen

Newtonian telescope – Isaac Newton

Peach Melba, Melba toast, Melba sauce – Nellie Melba

Melvillade – Robert Melville

Molotov cocktail – Vyacheslav Molotov

Moog synthesizer – Robert Moog

Morse code – Samuel Morse

Muntz metal – George Frederic Muntz

N to S

Napier's bones – John Napier

Newcomen steam engine – Thomas Newcomen

Nissen hut – Peter Norman Nissen

Nordenfelt gun - Thorsten Nordenfelt

Northrop Loom – James Henry Northrop

Ostwald viscometer – Wilhelm Ostwald

Odhner Arithmometer – Willgodt Theophil Odhner

Odón Device – Jorge Odón

Owen submachine gun – Evelyn Owen

Ormerod link – Edward Ormerod

Parkesine – Alexander Parkes

Pavlova – Anna Pavlova

Pasteurization – Louis Pasteur

Patchett gun – George William Patchett

Payne's grey – William Payne

Peavey – Joseph Peavey

Pelton turbine – Lester Allan Pelton

Penning trap – Frans Michel Penning

Petri dish – Julius Richard Petri

Pilates – Joseph Pilates

Pimm's – James Pimm

Pinchbeck – Christopher Pinchbeck

Pintsch gas – Julius Pintsch

Phillips screw – Henry F. Phillips

Pitman shorthand – Isaac Pitman

Pitot tube – Henri Pitot

Plimsoll line – Samuel Plimsoll

Pulaski – Ed Pulaski

Puretic power block – Mario Puratić

Pupin coil – Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin

Prusik – Karl Prusik

Raglan sleeve – Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan

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

Prince Rupert's Drop – Prince Rupert of the Rhine

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

Shrapnel shell – Henry Shrapnel

Schick test – Béla Schick

Sousaphone – John Philip Sousa

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

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

Tesla coil, Tesla turbine – Nikola Tesla

Theremin – Léon Theremin

Thompson submachine gun – John T. Thompson

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

Winchester rifle – Oliver Winchester

Whitworth thread – Joseph Whitworth

Wiegand wire – John R. Wiegand

Wilhelmy plate – Ludwig Wilhelmy

Wilson chamber – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

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