Fishing for terminology or a word that might described this type of nomenclature I have something I eventually want to make a point with another discussion but for now this example.
Diesel fuel originated from experiments conducted by German scientist and inventor Rudolf Diesel for his compression-ignition engine he invented in 1892.
Diesel fuel and engines got their names from inventor.
Is this just a part of nomenclature or could there be some other terminology that explains something taking on or being given a name because of someone? Or the way the word deisel translationed from someone's name to becoming a label for a thing that was not original to the meaning of the original word.
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"All devices, clothes, and even dishes were invented by someone. But many have become so ingrained in our lives that we don’t even spell them with a capital letter, even when they are technically a person’s name.
"The people on this list probably didn’t imagine they would one day be nouns, but this is a great honor. Their designs, some of which were quite accidental, have changed history and how people live and work."
21 Inventions Named After Their Creator
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LiterateHiker
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Sep 16, 2019
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Happens all the time right in front of us! Blow your nose in a 
Kleenex. Clorox that stain. Windex those windows.
Mimeograph or Xerox those papes (these are archaic already!) Drive that John Deere, and etc........
AnneWimsey
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Sep 16, 2019
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So I know this family last name Wheeler. Maybe their ancestry invented the wheel?
@blahblah probably drove a muke team, or fixed wheels....very, very few last names until early Middle Ages, when growing populations (and more concentrated) required it.
You are a hard guy to figure out. Maybe your name is appropriate.
There was the crapper, that might have been named for Thomas Crapper.
Of course there are numerous physics units named after their developers but I doubt if that is what you mean. Odd, but I can’t think of another example.
WilliamFleming
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Sep 16, 2019
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Yes, I know about the crapper, but actually Mr. Crapper didn't invent the crapper, but made modifications that are credible to the toilet.
Thomas Crapper (baptised 28 September 1836; died 27 January 1910) was an English plumber who founded Thomas Crapper & Co in London, a sanitary equipment company. Crapper held nine patents, three of them for water closet improvements such as the floating ballcock. He improved the S-bend trap in 1880 inventing the plumbing trap (U-bend).
I think you're thinking of an eponym.
Cutiebeauty
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Sep 16, 2019
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That is basically answer to my question. Don't recall hearing of that word ever. Might help me with my other thoughts that involve something being an eponym.
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