George Henry Bachhoffner (13 April 1810 – 22 July 1879), was a British scientist, one of the founders of the London Polytechnic Institution, and a lecturer on scientific subjects.
Afterwards, he became lessee and manager of the Coliseum in the Regent's Park, and there gave lectures similar to the courses he had established at the Polytechnic.
In the later part of his life, he held a post as registrar of births and deaths in Marylebone.
Bachhoffner was an inventor and took out several patents for inventions connected with the electric telegraph, gas stoves and oil lamps.
Bachhoffner can thus be credited with the invention of this method of preventing eddy current losses.