How 16 famous electronic companies got their names(blogs.static.mentalfloss.com)

27 pointsby jingsongvor 17 Jahren4 comments

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How 16 famous electronic companies got their names

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TravisLSvor 17 Jahren

For anyone who enjoyed this article, here's the holy grail of company name etymologies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_company_name_etymologie...

jpwagnervor 17 Jahren

The reason the article exists is that the "holy grail" is tedious.

antiismistvor 17 Jahren

More interesting than how they got thier names is what these companies were doing before their names got famous. For example on this list there are decendants from a pulp mill, dried fish exporter, and a playing card maker.

kazuyavor 17 Jahren

> 10. Seiko: The watchmaker takes its name from a Japanese word meaning 'exquisite' or 'success'.

It does not mean 'success' in this case.

And it's rather 'precision work' than 'exquisite'.

BTW the old Canon logo is quite lovely, isn't it.