Eponyms
apollinian
balanced, harmonious, controlled
apollinaris water
mineral water
ampex, ampexband
After the Russian-American engineer Alexander M. Poniatoff (Kazan, Russia 1892 Palo Alto 1980) who combined his initials AMP with the 'ex' of excellent for the name of his company. Poniatoff's father was a wealthy timber merchant who sent his son to Karlsruhe Technical Academy in Germany. Alexi was thinking about building a turbine engine factory when World War I broke out on his return to Russia.
ampere
After the French physicist André-Marie Ampère (Poleymieux-au-Mont-d'Or 1775 Marseille 1836).
What would electricity be without magnetism? Motors and transformers, the entire power current, but also the telephone and the radio are examples of how electric currents generate magnetic fields and vice versa. The Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851) noticed in the year 1820 during a lecture about his experiments that a compass needle – a thin magnet – deflected near a wire through which current ran. That same year, scientists in Paris set to work on the basis of that fact. The experiments were repeated systematically and laid the foundations of the laws governing the technical use of electricity. The central figure was André-Marie Ampère.
America
After the first name of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci (Florence 1454-1512). Amerigo Vespucci was born in 1454 to an influential Florentine family. At an early age he entered the service of the De Medici family, helping them manage their extensive trading companies. Like his patron Lorenzo il Magnifico, he read a great deal, collected books and maps, developed a special interest in cosmography and astronomy.
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