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Eureka (or 'Heureka'; Greek εύρηκα/ηύρηκα) is a famous exclamation attributed to Archimedes, see: Eureka (word).
[edit] Places
Numerous places are named for the expression:
[edit] In the United States
[edit] Cities and towns
- Eureka, California
- Eureka, Illinois
- Eureka, Indiana
- Eureka, Kansas
- Eureka, Louisiana, a community east of Frost Town on route 837.
- Eureka, Missouri
- Eureka, Montana
- Eureka, Nevada
- Eureka, North Carolina
- Eureka, South Dakota
- Eureka, Utah
- Eureka, Wisconsin
- Eureka Springs, Arkansas
- Eureka Township, Adair County, Iowa
- Eureka Township, Michigan
- Eureka Township, Minnesota
- Eureka Valley (San Francisco), California, a neighborhood
- Eureka Valley, Inyo County, California
[edit] Outside the United States
- Eureka, Nova Scotia in Canada
- Eureka, Nunavut in Canada
- Eureka Sound, Nunavut, Canada
- Eureka, Transvaal in South Africa
- Eureka, Waikato in New Zealand
- Eureka, New South Wales in Australia
- Eureka Pass, a pass on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada
[edit] Historical
[edit] Science and technology
- 5261 Eureka, an asteroid co-orbital with Mars
- EUREKA, the pan-European research and development inter-governmental initiative
- Eureka 147, also known as the Digital Audio Broadasting (DAB) system
- Eureka beacon, used by Allies during World War II to guide paratroopers to drop zones
- Eureka (Equation Solver), software first marketed by Borland in 1987; also known as Mercury; similar to TK Solver
- Eureka (magazine), published by the Cambridge University Mathematical Society
- Eureka (science magazine), published by Kerala Sasthra Sahitya Parishat, Kerala, India
- Eureka (OPAC), a library search engine developed by RLG
- Eureka! (computer program), a disk-catalogue program for the CP/M operating system
- Eureka! (museum), a museum in Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- Heureka, a science centre in Vantaa, Finland
- The Eureka, a machine for generating Latin verses
- EURECA, a European scientific satellite.
[edit] Entertainment
[edit] Film and television
- Eureka (TV series), 2006–, on the Sci Fi Channel (U.S.), shown in the UK as A Town Called Eureka
- Eureka! (TV series), a 1980s Canadian educational series produced by TVOntario
- Eureeka's Castle, a TV series that ran on Nickelodeon from 1989 to 1995
- Eureka Seven, a mecha anime by the BONES studio - Using the Japanese Alphabet, the pronunciation of the word as it is used in the anime is "Eh-oo-re(le)-ka"
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- Eureka, a main character in Eureka Seven.
- Eureka Maru, a fictional starship in the TV series Andromeda
- Eureka (1984 film), directed by Nicolas Roeg and starred Gene Hackman, Rutger Hauer, Mickey Rourke, and Joe Pesci
- Eureka Stockade (film), 1949, Australia. Directed by Harry Watt
- Eureka (2000 film), directed by Shinji Aoyama
- Eureka (2006 film), produced by Shell Films
- Eureka (cable network), a German cable news network that broadcast in the 1980s
- Eureka (BBC), a 1985 cult BBC children's TV series about science and inventiveness, with Wilf Lunn BBC link
- Eureka! (Irish TV), an Irish Language quiz show for primary school students, broadcast on RTÉ in the mid-1990s
[edit] Other meanings
- Eureka Tower, a 91-storey residential building in Melbourne, Australia
- Eureka (Literary Magazine), the literary magazine of Eureka College
- Eureka (Malayalam magazine), a Malayalam science magazine for children
- Eureka (French automobile), a French automobile
- Eureka (1900 automobile), an American automobile
- Eureka (1907 automobile), an American automobile
- Eureka (1974 Australian kit car), an Australian automobile
- Eureka! (bplan competition), India's largest business plan competition conducted by The Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Bombay
- Eureka, Dorothy Gale's cat, so named because Uncle Henry found her.
- Eureka (vacuum cleaner)/The Eureka Company, a brand of vacuum and other floor care products currently owned by the parent company AB Electrolux.
