This is a list of inventions followed by name of the inventor (or whom it is named after). For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see Lists of etymologies.
Guillotine ? Joseph-Ignace Guillotin did not invent the guillotine, but proposed the use of the mechanical device to carry out death penalties in France.
Marconi rig (sloop) ? Guglielmo Marconi ? a satiric reference to complicated spreaders and shrouds that had the appearance of radio antennas of the time.
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