List of inventions named after places

This is a list of inventions and foods named after places.

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

A-G

A cherry Bakewell

A Bangalore torpedo

Woman wearing a bikini

Chicago screws

A fez

• Adirondack chair - Adirondack mountains, USA
• Adirondack guideboat - Adirondack mountains, USA
• Angostura bitters - Angostura, now called Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela
• Arbroath smokie - Arbroath, Scotland
• Axminster carpet - Axminster, Somerset, UK
• Badminton game - Badminton, Gloucestershire, UK ^[1]
• Bakewell tart - Bakewell, Derbyshire, UK ^[2]
• Balaclava - Balaklava, Crimea, Ukraine ^[3]
• Balmoral bonnet - Balmoral, Scotland
• Balmoral shoe - Balmoral, Scotland
• Bánh mì - Saigon, Vietnam
• Bangalore torpedo - Bangalore, India
• Bath bun - Bath, Somerset, UK ^[4]
• Belfast truss - Belfast, Northern Ireland ^[5]
• Berlin - Berlin, Germany
• Bikini - Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands ^[6]
• Blackpool rock - Blackpool, Lancashire, UK
• Bordeaux mixture – Bordeaux, France ^[7]
• Bristol board - Bristol, UK
• Brummagem Ware - Birmingham, UK
• Bungalow - Bengal, India ^[8]
• Cambric - Cambrai, France known as Kameryk in Dutch ^[9]
• Camembert - Camembert, Orne, France ^[10]
• Calico - Kozhikode, Kerala, India known as Calicut ^[11]
• Cape cart - Cape of Good Hope
• Champagne - Champagne, France
• Chelsea bun - Chelsea, London, UK
• Chorley cake - Chorley, Lancashire, UK
• Chicago screw - Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Cognac - Cognac, France ^[12]
• Concord coach - Concord, New Hampshire, USA
• Corinthian bronze - Corinth, Greece ^[13]
• Cornish pasty - Cornwall, UK
• Damascus steel - Damascus, Syria
• Damask - Damascus, Syria
• Delftware - Delft, Netherlands ^[14]
• Denim - Nimes, France ^[15]
• Dresden porcelain - Dresden, Germany
• Denver boot - Denver, USA
• Dum-dum bullet - Dum Dum, West Bengal, India ^[16]
• Dymkovo toy - Dymkovo settlement, Russia^[17]
• Eccles cake - Eccles, Greater Manchester, UK
• Elswick cruiser - Elswick, Tyne and Wear
• Eton crop - Eton, Berkshire, UK ^[18]
• Eton mess - Eton College, Eton, Berkshire, UK
• Fedoskino miniature - Fedoskino, Russia
• Fez - Fez, Morocco ^[19]
• Finnan haddie - Findon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland ^[20]
• Frankfurter - Frankfurt, Germany
• Gordian knot - Gordium, Turkey

H-Q

A Norfolk Wherry

A Panama hat

Pomfret cakes

• Hackney carriage - Hackney, London
• Hamburger - Hamburg, Germany
• Harris tweed - Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
• Homburg - Bad Homburg, Germany
• Jeans - Genoa, Italy ^[21]
• Jodhpurs - Jodhpur, India
• Jena glass - Jena, Germany
• Jersey barrier - New Jersey, USA
• Jersey (clothing), Jersey (fabric) - Jersey
• Kentucky rifle - Kentucky, USA
• Khokhloma - Khokhloma settlement, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia^[22]
• Lancashire boiler - Lancashire, UK
• Landau - Landau, Germany
• Leyden jar - Leiden, Netherlands ^[23]
• Limerick - Limerick, Ireland
• Limousine - Limousin, France ^[24]
• Lincoln green - Lincoln, UK
• Macassar oil - Makassar, Indonesia
• Magenta - Magenta, Lombardy
• Marathon race - Marathon, Greece
• Mayonaisse - Mahón, Menorca, Spain
• Muscovy glass - Moscow, Russia
• Nankeen - Nanking, China ^[25]
• Norfolk wherry - Norfolk, UK
• Orenburg shawl - Orenburg, Russia
• Oxford bags - Oxford, UK
• Oxford brogues - Oxford, UK
• Panama hat - Panama
• Paris Green - Paris, France
• Parchment - Pergamon, Turkey ^[26]
• Plaster of Paris - Paris, France
• Pho - Vietnam
• Pomfret Cakes - Pontefract, Yorkshire, UK
• Port wine - Porto, Portugal
• Portland cement - Isle of Portland, Dorset, UK ^[27]

R-Z

A Tula gingerbread with the Coat of Arms of Russia printed.

• Roman candle (firework) - Rome, Italy
• Rugby football - Rugby, Warwickshire, UK ^[28]
• Russian guitar - Russia
• Russian Mountains - Russia^[29]
• Samian ware - Samos, Greece ^[30]
• Sherry - Jerez de la Frontera, Spain ^[31]
• Sienna - Siena, Italy
• Trojan horse - Troy, Turkey
• Tula gingerbread - Tula, Russia^[32]
• Venetian blind - Venice, Italy
• Venetian glass - Venice, Italy
• Yorkshire pudding - Yorkshire, UK
• Worcester sauce - Worcester, UK ^[33]
• Worsted - Worstead, Norfolk, UK ^[34]
• Zhostovo painting - Zhostovo, Russia

See also

• List of inventions named after people
• List of inventors
• List of inventors killed by their own inventions

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