WARD'S BOOK OF EPONYMS Who gave their names to what
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Kellogg’s The company was founded by Will Keith Kellogg (1860-1951), who started his career as a brush salesman. Later he came to work at the Battle Creek Sanatorium, Michigan, where his brother, Dr John H Kellogg was chief medical officer. Dr Kellogg was a believer in a vegetarian diet, not just for himself but for his patients. The two brothers set about experimenting for new meat free foods that would add interest to a nutritional regime. Once when they had placed some boiled wheat on a tin tray, Dr Kellogg was called away to a medical emergency. The next day as the material was passed through rollers, it broke into flakes not sheets as expected. This accident produced the first corn flakes. They were so popular with the patients that, the brothers realised there was a market for the products and started selling them. In 1906, W K Kellogg started the Battle Creek Toasted Flake Company since when Kellogg’s have snap, crackle and popped their way to international success.
Knickers They were originally knee pants for young boys and golfing men. The Dutch surname knickerbocker derived from the occupation of brick-maker (knicker=brick bocker=baker). Knickers were the creation of Washington Irving, who wrote a book entitled Knickerbocker's History of New York under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker. The text was illustrated with men wearing short breeches, fitting loosely and gathered at the knee. This text made the garment popular. They were first called knickerbockers, but the name was later shortened to knickers. They were worn by young boys, cyclists and footballers. Later they were transformed into ladies’ silk undergarments.
Knorr cubes The name comes from Carl Heinrich Knorr who started business in cereals in 1838 in Heilbronn, Germany. He was later joined by his sons, one of whom had seen soup powders in France. Their first dehydrated product was a sausage of dried peas, which made pea soup when boiling water was added. The Heilbronn factory was destroyed in World War II after which the business was run by the Swiss affiliates.Other letters