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Things Named for Inventors

These objects were named for their inventors. Guess what they are.
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Last updated: September 12, 2017
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First submittedJanuary 8, 2012
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Description
Invention
3-D puzzle popular in the 1980s
Rubik's cube
Amusement park ride
Ferris wheel
Decapitation machine
Guillotine
Device for measuring radiation
Geiger counter
Method of telegraph communication
Morse code
Raincoat made from rubberized fabric
Mackintosh
Diagram that shows the union and
intersection of different sets
Venn diagram
Two pieces of bread with
fillings between them
Sandwich
Yoga-like exercise system
Pilates
Used for canning fruit
Mason jar
Ice-rink smoother
Zamboni
19th century machine gun
with a crank
Gatling gun
Description
Invention
Marching band tuba
Sousaphone
S'more ingredient
Graham cracker
Rigid dirigible
Zeppelin
Inkblots used by psychologists
Rorschach test
Method of reading for the blind
Braille
Place where cells are cultured
Petri dish
Early photographic process
Daguerreotype
Conical laboratory flask
Erlenmeyer flask
Laboratory equipment that
produces a gas flame
Bunsen burner
Device that demonstrates the
rotation of the Earth
Foucault pendulum
Large fighting knife
Bowie knife
AK-47
Kalashnikov
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Level 55
Jan 8, 2012
I knew Petri, but I could not remember how to spell it. Other than that, 19/24.
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Level 64
Jan 8, 2012
Am I the only one who thinks "X Files" when confronted with Erlenmeyer flask as an answer?
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Level 69
Dec 8, 2014
Nope :D
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Level 65
Jun 21, 2015
I think of "Breaking Bad."
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Level 61
Jul 12, 2018
You are not alone, and also, the truth is out there.
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Level 44
Jan 8, 2012
No, and I don't think I am the only one who thought of Watchmen with the Rorschach test.
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Level 58
Feb 11, 2022
Definitely not :D
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Level 28
Jan 8, 2012
21/24 totally spaced on Gatling and Bowie but I never would have gotten Kalashnikov, lol
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Level 74
Apr 14, 2013
Here it's always called a Kalashnikov. I would never have remembered AK-47, if the question had been reversed.
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Level 67
Oct 17, 2015
And what was Andrei Kirlilenko's uniform number when he played for the Utah Jazz? One guess.
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Level 70
Jul 12, 2018
69
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Level 65
May 15, 2023
Congratulations on your matching level as well
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Level 76
Jul 12, 2018
Nice.
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Level 56
Jun 10, 2022
Andrei Kirlilenko, AK, wore number 47. Was that intentional or coincidence?
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Level 65
May 5, 2023
Like Nobel and Oppenheimer, he had regrets.
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Level 84
Dec 8, 2014
22/24 Couldn't spell Rorschach, and had never heard the tem Kalashnikov - learned something new!
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Level 44
Jan 21, 2015
lol I couldnt spell rorschach lol
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Level 51
Aug 4, 2015
I blanked on Bowie. Didn't know Kalashnikov, either.
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Level 56
May 23, 2022
I didn't think David Bowie liked knives so much
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Level 59
Jan 8, 2012
why use the word dirigible instead of airship?
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Level 82
Dec 8, 2014
why not? Dirigible is a fun word and was used more commonly at the time zeppelins were in common use anyway.
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Level 36
Dec 9, 2014
why wasn't it a blimp?
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Level 44
Jul 13, 2018
yakdog is correct. A rigid dirigible has a hard metal frame, whereas a blimp is simply inflated like a balloon. If you have ever seen the footage from the Hindenburg Disaster you can see it has a large metal frame that supported it, which made it a rigid dirigible. I hope that helps answer your question (which I realize after writing this was from 4 years ago, haha).
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Level 58
Feb 11, 2022
I never heard that word before...
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Level 79
Jan 9, 2012
Got the chemistry ones thanks to "Breaking Bad."
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Level 37
Jan 18, 2012
@kevinj, no you are not, I also thought of Watchmen - Who Watches The Watchmen?
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Level 82
Dec 8, 2014
I watched Watchmen. A bunch of times. Great movie. Especially the director's cut.
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Level 44
Dec 8, 2014
It was alright, but changing the ending was a huge mistake.
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Level 82
Dec 8, 2014
Beg to differ. Keeping the ending would have been a huge mistake. The movie's ending was much better than the comic book. Giant robot squid? c'mon...
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Level 89
Feb 11, 2022
As much as Zack Snyder gets bashed for some things, one thing I will give him credit for is that he is really good at making shots that look like they belong in a comic book. I think Watchmen might be my favorite Zack Snyder film, perhaps even his best.
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Level 32
Mar 22, 2012
Could another answer for the yoga question be "Bikram"?
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Level 79
Nov 26, 2014
I thought the same thing initially, but Bikram is actual yoga, not yoga-like.
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Level 82
Jan 27, 2013
Did Bowie invent the Bowie knife? Or was he just famous for using one?
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Level 75
Oct 30, 2015
There were several versions of the long knife which Bowie made famous in the Sandbar fight, and there are many legends concerning who made the knife he carried that day and later at the Alamo. Some believe blacksmith James Black made the most well-known version from a design by Jim Bowie, others say Jesse Clift's version was the one which became well-known, several Louisiana blacksmiths made knives for the Bowie family which were similar in shape, and Bowie's brother Rezin claimed he first made the knife used in the Sandbar fight and gave it to his brother to carry for protection. We'll probably never know who made the first knife which Jim carried that day which made him famous, or which one he carried with him at the Battle of the Alamo, but at the least it could be agreed that Jim Bowie is the "inventor" of the name and legend attached to that particular style of knife. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowie_knife
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Level 38
Sep 7, 2017
Actually, that's incorrect, the Bowie knife was invented by David Bowie. He needed a large knife to intimidate producers with, and switchblades were going out of fashion. So he decided to go bigger, went into the studio and summoned up a giant knife with his powers of glam and freaky magic.

Little known fact.

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Level 84
Feb 12, 2022
So, all this happened BEFORE Ziggy Stardust??
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Level 74
Feb 24, 2014
What are the chances of accepting Kilner jar for we non-Americans? Both were invented by the Kilner family in the UK, but they're known as Kilner jars over here.
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Level ∞
Oct 22, 2014
Okay, that will work now.
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Level 67
Apr 25, 2014
Got everything but Venn, Sousa, Bowie and Gatling. Got Rorschach at the first try, to my everlasting surprise, and Kalashnikov on the second (wrote CH at first). I was very glad to be French when I saw Daguerre, Braille and Foucault, though! Nice quiz, I learned a lot with this one!
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Level 83
Jun 10, 2014
23/24 because I left the "s" off of Pilates
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Level 92
Oct 23, 2014
But (in)famous though he is, I don't think anything was ever named after poor Pontius
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Level 77
Jun 27, 2014
Zambini... zambini.. it's something like that... nope..
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Level 45
Jul 3, 2014
It's ZOOMBINIS!

Sorry, I just couldn't resist.

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Level 36
Dec 9, 2014
I tried at least 5 variations of zambini....

And took me forever to spell Rohrshach right...think I'm back to wrong already

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Level 75
Jul 12, 2018
I'm embarrassed to admit my first try was Gambini. I just watched My Cousin Vinny.
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Level 59
Dec 8, 2014
I got two by taking wild guesses at the bowie knife clue.
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Level 83
Dec 8, 2014
Joseph-Ignace Gullotin did not invent the guillotine. Someone already had. He only suggested it should be used as a humane killing method in France.
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Level 83
Dec 8, 2014
I've never heard of raincoat called a Mackintosh. Everything else was pretty easy (except for some of the spellings...)
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Level 88
Jul 12, 2018
Yeah I've never heard of it either
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Level 76
Jul 12, 2018
It's a very common term in Britain, often shortened to just "mack."
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Level 71
Jul 13, 2018
Or 'Mac'
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Level 44
Feb 12, 2022
I know it from reading Paddington bear as a child. :)
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Level 45
Dec 8, 2014
Got Erlenmeyer Flask thanks to Walter White.
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Level 55
Dec 9, 2014
Never heard of a Sousaphone, but a Saxophone (which isn't a marching band instrument, I know) was named for someone named Sachs. (Apparently not, wikipedia says Sax!)
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Level 78
Jul 12, 2018
Surely a sousaphone is a Liverpudlian communication device
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Level 82
Feb 12, 2022
That would be a scousaphone
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Level 44
May 30, 2016
The talbotype is another early photographic process (1841, just two years after the daguerreotype) also named after its inventor
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Level 54
Jul 19, 2016
I still got it right but you should accept Maxim gun for 19th century machine gun. The Maxim was a true machine gun that was gas powered instead of hand crank of the Gatling.
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Level 69
Feb 7, 2017
Agree, and it even has a cool rhyme to go with it
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Level 65
Mar 8, 2017
Not even one element?
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Level 83
Apr 22, 2018
Elements don't tend to be invented, more discovered.
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Level 55
Apr 12, 2017
couldn't spell sousaphone
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Level 47
May 1, 2017
Could Gatling also be Maxim?
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Level 67
Jun 11, 2017
For Mackintosh, I accidentally typed in Mac and I got it. I was trying to say machete for the second to last one, for some reason.
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Level 82
Sep 7, 2017
erlyn myer could use many extra type-ins
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Level ∞
Sep 12, 2017
Added some more variations to the many that already existed.
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Level 82
Jul 12, 2018
thanks. helpful.
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Level 73
Sep 7, 2017
Stupid. I couldn't get past Dewar's flask (laboratory thermos flask) instead of Erlenmeyer flask. Doh
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Level 83
Jul 12, 2018
Consider adding Teclu and Meker for the gas burners?
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Level 76
Jul 12, 2018
Man, I've been working with or around Erlenmeyer flasks for around 15 years and I apparently have no idea how to spell it.
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Level 76
Oct 13, 2019
More than a year later and I still want to put a random "h" in it somewhere for some reason.
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Level 68
Jul 12, 2018
+1 here if Urza's Destiny's set symbol helped you remember Erlenmeyer Flask.
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Level 72
Jul 12, 2018
I'm disappointed there are no complaints about the definition of a sandwich!
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Level 71
Jul 13, 2018
Does a filling between two pieces of bread make you feel better?
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Level 84
Jul 12, 2018
Argh! Tried "Bowey" but not "Bowie"!
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Level 49
Jul 12, 2018
Never heard of a Graham Cracker before, seems like most people have though!
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Level 75
Dec 26, 2019
They're American. One of the three components of a s'more, a campfire treat which consists of a square of Hershey's chocolate and a hot, roasted marshmallow smashed between two squares of graham cracker. They're probably closest to a digestive biscuit in Britain, but still not the same. My grandmother used to take them with her when traveling - the fiber in them keeps one "regular".
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Level 71
Feb 11, 2022
I hadn't heard of a s'more either so there wasn't much chance of me getting that one
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Level 67
Aug 24, 2020
Was also thinking tommy gun for a second. I thought of Erlen and Meyer but didn't put them together haha
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Level 52
Apr 26, 2021
didnt venn not actually make the diagram
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Level 74
Sep 29, 2021
This quiz is a Good Quiz.
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Level 60
Feb 11, 2022
What's a S'more??
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Level 54
Feb 11, 2022
A smore is one of those things were you take a graham cracker, split it in two, take one half, put a marshmallow and two parts of a Hershey bar on it, then put the other half of the graham cracker and you have a smore
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Level 56
Jun 10, 2022
As noted in a previous comment, the marshmallow has to be toasted over a campfire for a real S’more.
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Level 33
Feb 11, 2022
The monorail was invented by George Monorail!
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Level 65
Feb 11, 2022
In America, when someone talks about a Macintosh, it's either an apple or an Apple.
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Level 37
Feb 14, 2022
Is "S'more" a thing elsewhere than in the americas? I wouldn't know graham cracker anyone but I didn't even understand the question haha.

(Also, some things like the Bunsen burner or Geiger counter I've never heard being called like that :/ )

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Level 56
Jun 10, 2022
Wikipedia says it is popular in USA and Canada. My American camping friends tried different crackers when they moved to Australia but didn’t care for the substitutions.
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Level 68
Sep 15, 2022
Tried "Rambo" knife