Things We Didn't Realize Were Named After People
Vložit
- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
- Some products are so ubiquitous that their names are taken for granted. Have you ever stopped and thought what “Pilates” means? What about “nachos”? Or even “saxophone”?
It turns out that those products - and many others that are household and cultural staples - were named after their creators.
Be sure to subscribe to the Weird History Newsletter: www.ranker.com/newsletters/we...
#inventions #items #weirdhistory - Zábava
Here's a nifty one you missed. The CARDIGAN sweater (opens and/or buttons down the centre of your chest) was invented by James Brudenell. Now, no grandmother wanted to be known for wearing a "Brooding Nelly" item of clothing, So instead it was named a cardigan, because Mr. Brudenell was the 7th Earl of Cardigan.
Cardis are brilliant, and a versatile wardrobe staple. I have at least 30 and am far from grandmother age.
@@greywater3186 I absolutely agree. Cardis ARE so versatile. Leave them open, take them off, button up to the chin, tie the sleeves around your waist. They're perfect for every kind of weather! But ya gotta admit, "Broody Nelly" would not have been an appealing name.
nifty one innitt
@@kalibaby89Why does your post have "translate to English" underneath it? 😂
Pull Over!
It's a Cardigan, but thanks for noticing.
You missed the important fashion statement and expression of manliness, sideburns. Named for American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside, who did not invent the look but wore it splendidly. At first the look was called "burnsides", but eventually the syllables became swapped, as syllables are wont to do, giving us the modern term.
Contrast with another Civil War general, Joseph Hooker, who did not lend his name to the slang expression popular to this day, despite the common misconception to the contrary.
Syllables are so untrustworthy
The word 'Boycott' comes from Charles Boycott, who was an 1800s land agent for an estate in Ireland.
He treated his Irish farmer tenants who lived on the land, unfairly, imposing unnecessary rules on them, made them pay exhorbitant rents, evicted those who couldn't, and stripped them of basic privileges.
Unfortunately for him, the Irish National Land League, led by Charles Parnell, were campaigning for the rights of Irish tenants, and Boycott's tenants decided to adopt the League's policy of non-violent resistance and ostracisation of those who treated them poorly.
Services such as the shops in the nearby communities refused to serve Boycott. Everyone would refuse to even speak with him, and all the estate's tenants refused to work the land, nor could they be easily replaced with those who were willing as no one nearby was.
This cost the estate 1000s of pounds, and increased the popularity of the League when the papers reported the event.
Boycott left Ireland forever in disgrace, and his name became the word that we all know.
Now its just known for something that doesn't work in today's society anymore
Fascinating!
And Geoffrey Boycott (no idea if related) was an incredibly annoying cricketer from Yorkshire. Someone is going to have a go at me now, but I claim innocence as I'm from Glamorgan (this will mean something to cricket fans in Britain!)
@@y_fam_goeglyd My first girlfriend was Mandy B.
Sounds like they were serfs to me.
Burpee is also a seed company and it precedes the exercise by more than 60 years.
Think about it. Whoever made this video is so young they haven't reached history class yet to learn about Ferris or Leotard. They're definitely not old enough to have been alive back when household gardens were common.
These videos are always so sad, seeing that kids these days don't know basic everyday facts about our world, that they think they've "discovered" something new, like a 2-year-old who thinks they're the first person in history to learn the alphabet.
They completely passed over John Shart. Sheesh.
Did he invent the shart or something?
@@BobbySacamanono the john 🚽 you were close though
Who?
Sharts are rarely done in the john, no?
@@ownpetard8379boom😂😂
The Cesar Salad? The Mulligan in golf? Definitely need an episode 2. =)
They have an episode that discusses the Cesar salad.
Cesar salad was invented in Tijuana, Mexico. It was named after Cesar Cardini, the owner of a restaurant called Cardini. But the chef who invented it worked at that restaurant and his name was Remigio Murguia.
@@ulyssedesfleurs1238 yep. i know. =)
Mansfield bar (the bar on the rear of semi-trucks that keep cars from careening under from the back) is named for Jane Mansfield, the actress, because there was no "bar" on the truck in front of her car where she died.
Actress Jayne Mansfield , attorney Sam Brody , and a driver were all decapitated and died instantly on June 29 , 1967 when the Buick Electra they were in ran under the back end of a slowed tractor-trailer truck . Three children in the back seat were not harmed .
@@drbluzer one of the children being Mansfields daughter Mariska Hargitay, who would grow up to be on Law & Order: SVU
One thing that most people don't know was (mostly) named for it's inventor: The Dumpster, as in the large trash bin. The inventor's name was George Dempster, and he named his invention as a pun on his surname.
You forgot to mention George Ferris graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute located in Troy, New York. Although it isn't officially noted, it is believed he got some of his idea for the Ferris Wheel from the Burden Water Wheel, also located in Troy, New York. I used to work at The Troy Public Library, so I am familiar with the history of Troy...
😊😊😊😊😊
A Ferris wheel is basically a larger water wheel.
Home of Uncle Sam, no?
@@rs8034a yup. Buried in Oakwood Cemetery.
Wow! Jonathan Chair really had an impact on us!
The Zamboni, the thing that cleans up ice skating rinks, was invented by a guy with the surname of that name.
Another one.... the toilet... or Crapper.. BTW, just stumbled onto this (thanks CZcams rabbit trail) Very entertaining. Subscribed (after binge watching several 😂)
Thom Crapper!
The Earl of Sandwich.... sandwiches made by his chef, so he had hunting and gambling snack food.
Of course people had been putting meat into bread for centuries. Look at the gyro.
Actually, the Earl of Sandwich had his chef put together a couple slices of meat between 2 slices of bread, because he was in the middle of a card game when he'd started getting hungry, but didn't want to interrupt his game to eat something
@@karlsmith2570 Bet he stuffed in his saddle bag or a other bag, when he was out. Too good a food to miss. Then got other chefs to make it too. Otherwise how would the idea have spread.
@@julianaylor4351 Would quickly add a spread to the sandwich.
I doubt his chef was the first person to invent a sandwich. He was likely the first to serve to guests (maybe a particular tasty variety) who then would return to their estates and have their chefs do the same. The name would spread from there.
People have been eating bread for at least 14,000 years. I’m sure at some point along the way, a dad bragged to his neighbors about the great new thing he tried at dinner the day before.
But what really makes saxophones cool is the jazz, rock and roll, blues and rock saxophonists. 😎🎶
Even though it is actually accidentally played flat....the solo at the beginning of Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty, is still 😎🎶.
Another great vid by Weird History
PS: It Would Be Nice If We Got An Update On Season 4 Of The Timeline Series!
Can't believe you glossed over Henry Shrapnel!
(It's actually real, go look it up lol)
Hey, you forgot Hans Wienerschnitzel and Giovan Battista Pesto! 😅
Not to mention Charles Baguette and Stansilaus Kielbasa. 😁
I had never heard of "burpee" or "pilate" until now. The others I knew. Fitness training has never been my thing.
10:43 They should make a big-screen film about Joseph Pilates, what an inspiring story!
That one surprised me most. I had no idea it was a surname.
4:53 My father bought a used Jacuzzi that we had at outside our house for years.
He used it to loosen his muscles because he experienced cramps all the time as a carpenter.
I used it for enjoyment. A Jacuzzi is the epitome of luxury!
Police Academy III, LOL
Finest cinematic masterpiece ever created
You mentioned diesel. A lessor known engine - the Wankel engine. That's the rotary engine Mazada commercialized. It's worth a mention just for the name.
I love you Weird History.
Is Weird History named after a Mr Weird?
How about surgeon Joseph Lister for Listerine mouth wash?
There are Lister bags in use by militaries worldwide.
Actually , it originally was invented as a cleaning agent , So i use it to clean the toilet with 👉 🚽 . ♑️✍️🇳🇴🇦🇺
The first time I ever had a nacho was in Piedras Negras in the 1970s where I remember hearing the story of how nachos were developed there. It was funny to hear that in this video!
Woah!
I’ve never heard of anyone remember their first nacho.
Lol.
What a cool thing to remember!
My guy can’t name all our favorites but I personally like the word ‘mesmerize’, so named after German physician Franz Mesmer.
We had to do Burpees at the Police Academy. They added 1 every day. By graduation we were doing over 100/day.
Your point is????
Imagine if cops kept that routine of 100 a day up?
They could do the exercise almost anywhere and stay in great shape.
@@greywater3186 unfortunately most departments don't have a Physical standard. I admit I'm not in the same shape as the when I graduated, I still go to the gym at least x3/week. It was easier at the Academy bc you were guaranteed to get a workout every day, the first weeks we were getting "blue-lined", for the slightest infraction 4-5 times a day.
@@andyv16012 Really, that’s interesting. Do you have to do a yearly physical or any test of your ability to do the job after graduation?
@@greywater3186 there's not a policy in my Department. As a Corporal, I require my Male and Female Officers (myself included) on my shift to be able to pass certain physical requirements. The only adjustments I make is for age. We do a timed run, bench press, planks, dummy drag, vertical leap, etc.
Loved the Lighthouse fart reference 👌
You didn’t even mention how Jacuzzi’s invention went on to power the greatest invention of the 20th century: the Jet-Ski.
Actually, the jet ski is just one application of the pump-jet drive. I would say that the jet boat, which can travel at high speeds through shallow water is more important than a toy which only exists to annoy other water users.
@allenjenkins7947 this type of jet propelled boat was invented in New Zealand by Bill Hamilton, and called the Hamilton Jet. Us kiwis are quite proud of the number of inventions and world firsts we can claim!
For your interest...Google Richard Pearse, the New Zealander who actually achieved controlled flight before the Wright Brothers.
Excellent dissection. The two things I disliked most about trekking pole tents and why I only use freestanding tents now is the amount of stakes necessary every time you pitch it, and those stakes require good soil. And that is the second problem. The two backpacking trips I've taken this year, the soil on one was dry, sandy, and rocky and I could only barely get the stakes to hold. The second one I thankfully took a freestanding tent and ended up having to pitch my tent on a boulder, which was the flattest open space on an unexpectedly busy campsite on the SHT I arrived at at sunset. The hike was too grueling to try to make it to the next site that night. If I had brought my trekking pole tent I kind of would've been screwed for the night.
8:42 There are a lot of diesel trucks about my hometown.
The most distinct are 4 door trucks with a horse trailer attached to them.
@btetschner:
Fun fact for you:
When Rudolph Diesel originally invented his namesake engine, he'd originally designed it to run on peanut oil
@@karlsmith2570 WOW! Very interesting!
In Australia we call popsicles "iceblocks" 😅
If it's on a stick, it's an icy pole.
Same here in New Zealand. Although the cheapest iceblocks are called Popsicles.
I honestly had no idea the saxophone was named after a man named Sax. Interesting. 🤔
Wow I didn't know any of them! Thanks WH for making this Wednesday a whole lot better👍
7:49 Thank goodness for those jars!
We have a whole cellar full of them that we use for our garden produce.
Just for the tomatoes, we use them for spaghetti sauce, pizza sauce, cocktail sauce, ketchup, tomato soup, salsa, barbecue sauce, and chilli sauce.
The main competitor to the Mason Jar is the Ball Jar; which is also named for its creator. Ball made so much money from his business, he helped found a university; Ball State in Indiana.
@@tygrkhat4087 Very interesting! I did not know that.
I’d like someone to explain how “Pleasure Island” got its name. Was that Jeffrey’s middle name?
I absolutely love the comical comments that keeps these videos so fresh and fun! Keep up the great work
Since Tupperware was named after Mr. Tupper, does that mean that Corningware was perhaps named after a Mr. Corning?
Wow, I really had NO IDEA that burpees were named after a person, lol! I've also never seen anyone perform that exercise before either.
I recall them in P E in schools in the 60s. and military use in Basic training. I was thinking Burbee seeds not the exercise move.
This is an interesting subject so thanks for sharing.
This should have a Weird History Food version
A+ video!
Fascinating topic, so practical also!
Was there really anyone who didn't know that Ferrari was named after a person?
And not the only car company like that, Henry Ford, the Bugatti brothers, etc.
@Aladeenandaladeen7992:
Probably less people knew that Enzo Ferrari had worked for Alfa-Romeo prior to establishing his own car company or even that Ferruchio Lamborghini, an Italian Farm equipment manufacturer had started building his own cars after he'd complained to Ferrari that the clutch in his car was far too soft and wanting them to fix the issue, which they never had and it sparked a longtime rivalry between the 2 companies
4:00 My younger brother played the Tuba and baritone in band.
Not sure if those fall in the sax family, but they look very similar.
They are saxhorns, also created by the same man. What makes them different is that baritone horns and tubas use valves and bell-shaped mouthpiece with no reed, and saxophones don't have valves and use reeds. Unless he was playing baritone sax, he played in the saxhorn family. Also, saxhorns are brass instruments, saxophones are woodwind.
@@BobbySacamano Facinating! Thank you so much for explaining that!
Nachos surprised me i never knew it was named after someone
A lot of the success of Tupperware in the US was due to Brownie Wise, who developed the "Tupperware party." Earl Tupper was a chemist and an inventor, but he lacked people skills.
Huh! This was fascinating, Weird!! Thanks so much!
I just LOVE this narrator!
Adolf Sax also finalized the design of bass clarinets.
Guccio Gucci is the kind of name that would sound unrealistic in a comic book.
One of my favorites is the Outerbridge Crossing, a bridge connecting New Jersey to Staten Island. Constructed between1925 to 1928, the bridge was named for Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge, the first chairman of the then-Port of New York Authority (now the Port Authority of NY/NJ). Instead of calling it the "Outerbridge Bridge", the span was labeled a "crossing". The bridge's etymology is sometimes incorrectly attributed to the fact that the Outerbridge Crossing is the most remote bridge in New York City and the southernmost crossing in New York state.
I think I remember hearing somewhere that Diesel made an engine that ran off of peanut oil as well. Idk if that is true or not though.
It's perfectly feasible for a diesel engine to run off peanut oil, or any other vegetable oil for that matter.
@@allenjenkins7947 I could have sworn I heard that somewhere that he did that and actually wanted the engine to run off of peanut oil but others decided that they could make more money off them being diesel fuel instead after he died or something. I could be wrong but I thought I heard that on history channel or something.
“…Someone wrote that down on a birth certificate with a straight face.” 🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣
10:21 Vala's Pumpkin Patch & Apple Orchard (Gretna, Nebraska) added a carousel to their theme park recently!
That place is like heaven in the fall, LOVE IT!
I really miss buying Tupperware. And I hate when people use this name for ordinary plastic containers. The brand name lives forever.
The Cobb salad. Named after the famous Boston family
The guy from Cocktail - Not Cruise, but Vyacheslav Molotov
Invented by the Finns during the Winter War of 1939-40 and named after Molotov in response to some of the propaganda put out by Molotov to justify the Soviet invasion of Finland. I suppose these days you'd call it a Lavrov cocktail 😅.
Gonna use Police Academy 3 as a temporal measuring stick, à la Cleopatra and the pyramids from now on.
10:26 It is crazy that the Eiffel Tower was unveiled at Paris's World's Fair!
The World's Fair is so groundshaking!
We want a biography of you, Mr. Favorite Voiceover Guy On The Internet!
I have rheumatoid arthritis and have a jetted tub. I couldn't live without it. 🙂🇨🇦
Sandwich - after the Earl of Sandwich who didn't want to get up from playing cards, to eat something
a Better Call Saul reference and a blue nose pitty photo in the same video? BRAVO! made my day. and now i want vegan nachos mmm.
7:55 Great ideas and beautiful image!
9:10 boy, you missed one here! The inventor of gasoline was actually John Cassell, and his cazeline became gasoline after some more trademark wrangling.
Where is Frank Zamboni??
You mean Zambo? Or the Boni?
@@JuhiSRK How to tell us you aren't Canadian, without mentioning the name of ANY country!
Thanks. Nachos surprised me. 'Hey! Where do you think you're going with that? That's nacho cheese!'. tavi.
More, more, more, please!!!
7:14 We use Tupperware for our leftover food and to go lunches.
We also use Tupperware for our cat's food and water containers.
Imagine being 15 months already with rheumatoid arthritis :(
5:02 I made a Pinewood Derby car that is a Ferrari which is on my desk right now.
I made it in the 80s for Cub Scouts.
3:48 Vertigo (1958) is my favorite film.
And all this time I thought that Phil Leotardo from "The Sopranos" invented the leotard. 🙃
Awesome!
6:51 They should really bring back Tupperware Parties, they are so practical!
Thanks for the rockin background music
2:59 My older brother played the saxophone for band.
Eating ANOTHER Weird History meal!
This time eating RED BARON PIZZA* with parmesan cheese and drinking a Wild Cherry Caprisun pouch...while watcing this Weird History video!
* From the Weird History Food video "The History of the Frozen Pizza"
Thank you Mr. Burpee... making $$$ with it everyday!💪💪💪
What is the music track used around the 4:54-5:54 mark? Beautiful track.
Really hope the Mason Jar guy has a great headstone or is in a fancy mausoleum. I mean, the company exists and could surely afford to see him right.
It's nachos it's mine! 😁
didn't know that Vin Diesel wasn't his real name 🤣
Dahlia flowers, named after Swedish botanist Anders Dahl.
The hole for emptying or filling a cask was named after my brother.
What do you call cheese that is not yours? Nacho cheese
Meanwhile, us in the UK just call them "ice lollies" 😁😁
Loving the new profile picture
You forgot macadam, sandwich and crapper!
And mackintosh, wellies (wellingtons) and hoover.
@@allenjenkins7947 Good ones!
0:59 that is a "squat thrust". Never heard it called a burpee.
Pablo Picasso would be a good subject for the Weird History Channel. With his eccentric and superstitious personality, plenty could be said for Picasso being talented, but also quite weird.
1:07 Gonnae no dae that 😂
The Uzi is named after Uziel Gal.
10:26 One of the themes of the film Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm was of a fair that was like the World's Fair.
Burpee is also a seed company
Honorable mention the Tesla? Who had a car named in his honor.
Not to mention Ford, Chevrolet, Dodge, Oldsmobile...
Good Point@@lp-xl9ld
0:47 that’s not a Burpee really it’s called Hercules. It’s a Burpee with mixed with a push-up.
Just be glad burpee wasn't called fartee. Could you imagine the burpee being called the fartee. 😂
4:41 I bought a Wheaties the other day that had Simone Biles printed on the front of the box.
Might have to keep that box!
0:01 The phrase "What's in a name?" reminds me of the rad music video "Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)" by Samantha Fox (1988).
She is an 80s musical star and former glamour model.
And page three pin-up for the sleazy British paper "The Sun".