The story
From the surname of Petrus Jacobus Kipp, a 19ᵗʰ century Dutch chemist and instrument maker who invented this apparatus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kipp's apparatus
Today it means: A piece of laboratory glassware used to generate demonstration amounts of hydrogen sulfide and other gases, by the controlled reaction of a liquid with a solid. Full definition →