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wolfgang59
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Can we make an alphabetical list of eponyms?

I'll start with some easy ones!

biro
leotard
sandwich

moonbus
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pasteurize

Kewpie
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afghan, also argyle - for the males among you, they're both knitting terms.

boycott

curie

wolfgang59
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Originally posted by Kewpie
curie[/b]
Ah yes SI units
Thank you!

Ampere
Farad
Joule
Newton
Volt
Watt

Kewpie
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diesel
epicure (from Epicurus)
furphy (one of my local favourites)
gauss
hertz (science is a good source, isn't it?)
jacuzzi



orangutan
ook

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davy (lamp)
eiffel (tower)
gieger (counter)
heineken (bladder filler)
kawasaki (kneee-wrawww)
suzuki (neea-whraaww)

s
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Westinghouse
Tesla
Sam Adams (beer)
Sarnoff research Center, Princeton NJ.
TORRicelli (760 Torr = 1 STP atmosphere)

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your face

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Originally posted by scorpios
your face
your point being?

AThousandYoung
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Kelvin

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Ponderable
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W4nkel (the System is not allowing the "a" in there wor some reason...it is a Motor and named after the engineer developing it)

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Ohm

We still need eponyms for the following letters:

imqruxyz

Kewpie
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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Ohm

We still need eponyms for the following letters:

imqruxyz
iris (goddess)
marathon (Greek city)
quisling (traitor, Norway I think)
raglan (another knitting term)
uzi (not really sure about this one, I think the name was not quite the same)
xerox
yale (key)
zeppelin

I'm not sure if yale actually qualifies, you may call it a yale key but do you call it just a yale?
Also, does anyone know about uzi?

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Originally posted by Kewpie
iris (goddess)
marathon (Greek city)
quisling (traitor, Norway I think)
raglan (another knitting term)
uzi (not really sure about this one, I think the name was not quite the same)
xerox
yale (key)
zeppelin

I'm not sure if yale actually qualifies, you may call it a yale key but do you call it just a yale?
Also, does anyone know about uzi?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uziel_Gal

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