What's in a Name?: From Joseph P. Frisbie to Roy Jacuzzi, How Everyday Items Were Named for Extraor ebook download Philip Dodd

What's in a Name?: From Joseph P. Frisbie to Roy Jacuzzi, How Everyday Items Were Named for Extraor

A brilliant and personal literary journey, in which Philip Dodd tells the curious tales of people whose names-deliberately or by chance-became household words What's in a name? For Philip Dodd, this question led to an international tour, sleuthing the history of some of our most intriguing eponyms. The result is a collection of surprising, stranger-than-fiction stories from history, the arts, the halls of science, and sometimes simply the realm of serendipity. This armchair traveler's delight contains little-known tales of such immortal figures as: - Roy Jacuzzi, alive and well and still bubbling with ideas in Happy Valley, California - Joseph P. Frisbie, the baker whose pie tins inspired Wham-O's ubiquitous flying disc - Ernst Gr�fenberg, for whom the G-spot was named - Samuel Maverick, the Texas pioneer who refused to brand his calves - And many other colorful figures From Belgium to Buenos Aires, from Orlando to Los Angeles, Dodd's readers go along for the ride. What's In a Name? is a marvelous tribute to people who changed our language-whether through hard work, creativity, or the luck of the draw.

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Title of ebook: What's in a Name?: From Joseph P. Frisbie to Roy Jacuzzi, How Everyday Items Were Named for Extraor
ISBN: 9781440663079
parent-ISBN: 9781592404322
Publisher: Gotham
Published: 12-2008
Released online for download: 12-30-2008
Author of eBook: Dodd, Philip

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