List of inventions named after people

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.

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's 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
 * 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
 * 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 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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