Eponym of the week: New Hampshire-born Earl Tupper. A manufacturer of plastic beads and soap containers, he received a block of polyethylene soon after World War II from DuPont, which was hoping peacetime uses could be found for this new material created for the war effort. After much tinkering, Tupper created the burping-seal Wonderbowl, first sold in 1947. The brand name Tupperware was coined soon thereafter.

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