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THE WORLD OF EPONYMS:

Written by Daniel Masese on September 2, 2024

Monday, September 2^nd.2024.

The World Of Eponyms:

Achilles’ heels in mythic breadth,

The suave spot, the death’s wound.

Emperor Ceasar’s salad, fresh and verdant,

The dish where power’s echoes glean.

Homer’s tales in epic verses,

Compose our fate,

For better or for worse.

From Ptolemy’s celestial charts,

To Fahrenheit’s thermometric arts.

Newton’s apple, gravity’s muse,

Spills wisdom that the world will uses.

Louis Pasteur’s path through microbe’s might,

Turns illness into a distant night.

Galileo Galilee’s gaze through the telescopes,

Reveals the stars and kindles hopes.

The Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright took flight,

Their names ascended,

In wings of dreams, our skies amended.

Through eponyms, the past aligns,

A bridge from now to ancient times.

Their stories etched in words we use,

Reflect the lives we still enthuse.

Let us honour these names of grace,

With every term our tongues embrace.

For in their echoes, history’s trace;

We find the path of our own place.

The Celsius Temperature Scale:

It is named after the Swedish Astronomer, Mathematician and Physicist Anders Celsius who is reputed for inventing this temperature scale.

Diesel Engine:

It is named after the German Inventor and Mechanical Engineer Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel who successfully invented the Diesel Engine and Diesel and Diesel Engine are named after him.

Fahrenheit Scale:

Named after the Inventor, Physicist and Scientific Instruments’ Maker Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.

The temperature that is used till today.

Kalashnikov Rifle AK 47:

It is named after the Russian Arms’ Designer and General Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov who served in the Soviet’s Army during the Second World’s War.

He also designed AKM, AK-47 and AK-74.

It is widely used in assault Rifle.

Morse Code:

Named after Artist and Inventor Samuel Finley Breese Morse who co-invented the telegraph system and developed the code of dots and dashes used till today for communication.

Saxophone:

Named after Belgian Inventor and Musician Antoine Joseph Sax who invented this family of wind instruments.

Zeppelin:

Named after German General and Inventor Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf Von Zeppelin who was a Pioneer in rigid airship development in the early 20th century.