hello, the wikipedia article miss another important fact: during the early sewing machines era, among vibrating shuttle sewing machines (1880s-1890s period) Acme was both a name of a company (Acme Keystone Manufacturing Company, a bit later ~1910) and a machine name (Acme by J. A. Titus & Co 1886 1887). See some pic.

We must consider these machines as first hi-tech objects breaking into common people lives (at least in western countries and Europe). Names of this kind of things sometimes remains in the spoken language used per antonomasia (ἀντονομάζω, antonomázo, "to change name"), in the same way nowadays we can address to a fast car as a Ferrari, or to a genial people as an Einstein.

Given the meaning (hightest point) and the imaginary backgroud it evocate, such name, as sometimes happens, revamped one century after and for casual circumstances, as to be used inside cartoons.

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In reply to Re^2: Ressources for Acme namespace cultural implications by Discipulus
in thread Ressources for Acme namespace cultural implications by Smonff

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