Do you know of any inventions that bear the name of their inventor?
I have heard that the sandwich was invented by the Earl of Sandwhich. Is this true?
Do you know of any common misconceptions about the inventor having the same name as an invention? I have heard that some people thing that Plato invented step children. Apparently this came about because of an episode of 'Star Trek'.?
I hope that you can help
2006-11-25 16:48:05 · 17 answers · asked by footynutguy 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Tesla coil invented by Nikola Tesla, it's the thing you see people putting their hand on causing their hair to stick up from static electricity.
2006-11-25 16:53:36 · answer #1 · answered by Sean 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most of the things that bear the names of their inventors are things you've probably never heard of. Like the Turing machine, the Dewar flask, the Argand lamp, the Moog synthesizer, the Franklin stove, the Hellschreiber (by Rudolf Hell), and many others. Though you may have never heard of these things, they are still referred to by these names at times.
But there are a few famous ones. Everyone has heard of the Braille writing system, and most people still remeber the Rubik's cube. So that's at least a couple to start with!
2006-11-25 17:13:57 · answer #2 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sam Browne
Hoover
Henry Ford
Duke of Wellington
Colt
Biro
Rubik
2006-11-25 17:47:25 · answer #3 · answered by Daddybear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-17 13:35:26 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Davey lamp-safety lamp for miners.
The Saxophone.
The Leotard
The Wankel rotary engine.
and The Van DE Graff generator- particles
2006-11-25 17:32:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Franklin Stove
2006-11-25 16:56:40 · answer #6 · answered by jane7 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
uh yea the sandwich thing is true. and there are plenty of inventions that bear the name of the inventor. Like the artificial heart, by J someone.... or like henry ford...
2006-11-25 16:50:16 · answer #7 · answered by coolchess123 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eliphalet Remington (designed the Remington rifle)
Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson (Smith & Wesson handguns)
Richard Gatling (Gatling Gun)
George Mortimer Pullman (Pullman sleeper car)
John Garand (M1 semiautomatic rifle or Garand rifle)
German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (Zeppelin dirigible)
Louis Pasteur (pasteurization)
Rudolf Diesel (diesel-fueled internal combustion engine)
Sylvester Graham (Graham crackers)
Charles Macintosh (Macintosh raincoat)
Heinrich Hertz (first to demonstrate the production and detection of Maxwell's waves, Hertz)
John W Lambert (first gasoline-powered automobile, Lambert car)
Guglielmo Marconi (Marconi practical radiotelegraph system)
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (thermometers and his temperature scale)
2006-11-25 19:44:22 · answer #8 · answered by Pico 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John Loudon McAdam invented macadam which is a type of road contruction. Later mixed with tar to become what we now know as tarmac
2006-11-25 18:15:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
used to be called "ottomobile" after a guy named nicholas otto who made gasoline engine in 1876.
Bell the telephone company was from Alexander Graham Bell
2006-11-25 16:56:18 · answer #10 · answered by C.J. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋