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My source says Bunsen popularized it. As you surely know, the inventor of the Bunsen burner was actually Michael Faraday.
 
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There's an idea for a thread... eponymous things that aren't really associated with the person they are supposed to be named after.

Earl Gray tea was an 1880's advertising invention, supposedly named for Charles Gray who was Prime Minister in the 1830s.


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Welcome, Doug. It is great to see a new poster here. We hope you'll pull up a chair and stay awhile.

It's not eponymous, but a related naming is the English muffin that actually was not from England.
 
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