WARD'S BOOK OF EPONYMS
Who gave their names to what
If you have ever wondered who gave their names to things and places, you will find the answer here. You can read about John Sandwich, George Dallas, Gustave Eiffel, James of York (New York), Clarence Birds-Eye, Charles Baltimore and many many others.
This is Ward's Book of Eponyms where you will find a large list of people who had things named after them. This page is devoted to things named after people whose name begins with the letter:
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echo Echo was a Greek demi-goddess, daughter of air and earth. Her master, Zeus, king of the heavens, was involved in many affairs with the nymphs on earth and, so that his wife, Hera, would not find out, employed Echo to maintain a constant chatter so that Hera would hear nothing. When Hera discovered her husband’s infidelities and Echo’s part in them, she struck her dumb except to repeat the words of others. Despite this misfortune, Echo fell in love with a youth, Narcissus, who loved nobody but himself and with her love spurned, Echo went to live in caves and wasted away to nothing but her voice.
eggs Benedict Eggs Benedictis, to give it it’s proper name, is a dish of poached eggs and ham with hollandaise sauce, enclosed in a muffin. In 1894, Lemuel Benedict, a genial man about town, frequented New York’s Waldorf-Astoria and always ordered his favourite hangover cure, bacon, poached eggs, toast and hollandaise sauce. The maître d'hôtel, Oscar Tschirky, perfected the recipe by substituting ham for bacon and muffin for bacon and named the creation after his inebriated client.
Eiffel Tower This latticework structure was erected for the 1889 Paris Universal Exposition by the celebrated civil engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (1832–1923). Eiffel owned an iron construction company and was the foremost bridge builder in France. In his youth he designed and built the iron bridge over the Garonne at Bordeaux, one of the monumental viaducts of Europe. The Eiffel Tower was at the time the world's tallest structure at 984 feet high. At the Paris Exposition was an alderman from Blackpool, John Bickerstaffe, who was so impressed with the structure that he copied the idea in his hometown and built the Blackpool Tower. Eiffel went on to construct the interior framework for the Statue of Liberty and make the great sluices of the Panama Canal.
Eli Lilly The name of the company is taken from its founder Colonel Eli Lilly (1838–1898) of Indianapolis, a veteran of the American Civil War. Lilly started a drug manufacturing business in his hometown in 1876 and supplied local drug stores. His unique contribution to pharmacy was gelatine capsules to hold medicine combined with fruit flavouring. His business earned him a fortune so that in 1890, he was able to leave his son in charge of the business and devote the rest of his life to serving charitable causes.Other letters