Pen to Paper: Meteors

Meteors — those bright streaks of light that flare against the dark sky and occasionally deposit a new rock on our planet — have long fascinated us.

Meteor has been and remains a popular product name. Newspapers, mobile communications businesses, graphic arts firms, advertising businesses, a games company, a make of guitar and banjo, a portable stove, phonograph needles (the younger set can just look that up), tabletop patio gas heaters, tennis shoes, weather radar systems, several kinds of aircraft including a Nazi rocket plane, a filtration system, and, of course, various automobiles have carried the name Meteor. This surely is the tip of the iceberg in things named after the meteor.

Continue reading “Pen to Paper: Meteors”