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.
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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 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 French drain – Henry F. French Fresnel lens – Augustin-Jean Fresnel Friedrichs condenser – Fritz Walter Paul Friedrichs Frost Airship Glider – William Frost
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