what was mercury named after and why?

Answer 1

The planet was named after the messenger of the Roman gods, who was extremely swift and fast. I think the car has a similar reason.

Answer 2

Mercury is an automobile marque of the Ford Motor Company founded in 1939 to market entry-level-luxury cars slotted between regular luxury vehicles. Ford and luxury Lincoln models, similar to General Motors' Buick (and former Oldsmobile) brand and Chrysler's Chrysler brand. Today, all Mercury models are based on Ford platforms. The Mercury name comes from the "messenger of the gods" of Roman mythology, and during its early years, the Mercury brand was known for performance, which was briefly revived in 2003 with the Mercury Marauder.

Answer 3

The Mercury name comes from the "messenger of the gods" of Roman mythology, and during its early years, the Mercury brand was known for performance, which was briefly revived in 2003 with the Mercury Marauder.

Mercury was its own division at Ford until 1945 when it was combined with Lincoln into the Lincoln-Mercury Division, with Ford hoping the brand would be known as a "junior Lincoln", rather than an upmarket Ford. In 1949, Mercury introduced the first of its "new look", integrated bodies, at the same time that Ford and Lincoln also changed styling radically. Again in 1952, Mercury offered a further modernization in its look. In 1958, the Lincoln-Mercury Division and the ill-fated Edsel brand were joined into the Mercury-Edsel-Lincoln Division; with the demise of Edsel in 1960, it has been in the Lincoln-Mercury Division ever since.

Mercury, like the defunct Edsel, was created from scratch, rather than being a takeover of an existing company like Lincoln. Mercury's heyday was in the 1950s, when its formula of stretching and lowering existing Ford platforms was very successful. The marque has changed several times throughout its history. During the 1940s and 1950s, the make moved between as a "gussied up" Ford, to a "junior Lincoln" and even to having its own body designs. From the late 1950s, through the 1960s and early 1970s, Mercury began to distance itself from Ford and offered several different looking models such as the Turnpike Cruiser, Park Lane, Cougar and Marquis. But in the late 1970s to the early 1980s the brand was joined at the hip with Ford again and its image suffered as a result.

Answer 4

Mercury was named after the messenger of the gods Mercury, because of his silver winged shoes that would speed him along on his errands. He moved like quicksilver (the other name for mercury, the chemical) in his work, hence the action of mercury in application was similar and so the name.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Mercury is named after the Roman God. In fact, it logo used to be the side profile of his head, complete with the signature bowl hat with wings was used during the early years until around the early 1950s.

Answer 7

The messenger God. Why? Because Zeus wouldn't allow them to use his name without signing a multimillion year contract with a signing bonus. Mercury and Jupiter were broke and would sign anything. That's why Zeus iz da MAN

Answer 8

Mercury was observed as the fastest of our celestial objects. So it was named mercury after the messenger of the gods.

Answer 9

All of the celestial bodies were observed by the Greeks and Romans, who thought that they were ancient gods and named them accordingly. Mars was the Roman god of War, Venus was the goddess of love. Mercury was named after the messenger god, known in Greek as Hermes, and is often depicted with a winged cap and winged feet. He was known as the swiftest of the gods, and Mercury is named because it appears to move faster in the night sky than others. The Greeks and Romans noticed that some "stars" changed positions relative to other stars in the night sky. They knew that they were seeing something different, and thought they were gods, they really saw the planets.

Answer 10

mercury was named after the roman god mercury also known as the greek god hermes.mercury was the god of thieves,trade,and passengers.he was also the messengers of the gods.the planet probably recieved this name because it moves so quickly across the sky.[remember mercury has the flying shoes.]

Answer 11

It was named after the Roman god, Mercury. He was the fast messenger with wings on his feet. So, they wanted a car that signified fast.