Alternate Names for Inventions / Appliances

I don't know where this thread goes to but here it goes :

So what are some alternate names for inventions such as cars, microwave, television, mobiles, computers, laptops, VCR, DVD, CDs, etc ?
 
We've had a couple pop up in my TL:

-Comptuers=Calculators and Vice-Versa
-Cars are Autos, somwhat uncreative
-Planes are Cloudskiffs
-Aeronautics is Nubenautics
-Dreadnought Ships are Leviathans
-Tanks are Dreadnoughts (or just 'naughts)
-Assault Rifles are Repeaters

It's always been one of my favourite little quirks of alternate history, just adds a tiny bit of depth, y'know?
 

jahenders

Banned
Telephone -- Teleradio
TV -- Visual Radio
Microwave -- Atomic Oven
Car -- Autowagon
VCR -- Visual Radio Recorder (VRR)
DVD -- Digital Video Album (DVA)
Mobile Phone -- Phonette
Personal Computer -- Home Terminal
Laptop -- Mobile Computer
Internet -- Worldnet
Plane -- Aerocar
DoD -- Department of War (DoW)

I don't know where this thread goes to but here it goes :
So what are some alternate names for inventions such as cars, microwave, television, mobiles, computers, laptops, VCR, DVD, CDs, etc ?
 

Orsino

Banned
Cars could be called Revolvers (revolution of wheels)
Firearms could be called Propellers (propelling projectiles)
Aeroplanes could be Ascendables (in the same vein as submersibles)
Computers could be Calendars (I'm thinking of astronomical calculations/stuff like the Antikythera Mechanism)
Telephones could be Projectors (projects sound)
The Internet could be The Constellation (a network of connected points, a bit more poetic than "web")
 
Cars could be called Revolvers (revolution of wheels)
Computers could be Calendars (I'm thinking of astronomical calculations/stuff like the Antikythera Mechanism)
The Internet could be The Constellation (a network of connected points, a bit more poetic than "web")
i sincerely doubt these ones. they're creative, but the terms are already so ubiquitous for a type of handgun, a means of determining the date, and perceived patterns in the sky, respectively, that they'll never be used for much else
 

Driftless

Donor
microwave = magnetron oven, or magoven?
refrigerator = chiller (the freezer would be a ... freezer....)
clothes washer = laundromatic
dishwasher = dishomatic
toaster = scorcher
Dutch oven = crucible
 
If William Gibson would have had just a tad more influence with his cyberpunk novels, the internet would have been 'the matrix'...

Airplanes: Aero-plan: Air-glider seems pretty straightforward, but Samuel Langley called his craft 'the aerodrome' from the Greek dromon= racer. Clement Ader called his construction l'avion after avis=bird. Avion is still the official French name for an airplane. (Lilienthal just called his craft Flugaparat=flying aparatus.)

possible alternative names for aircraft: Arodrome/airdrome could stick. Avion, aviator, avicraft just as well... And of course there will always be the flying machine
 

Driftless

Donor
Airplanes: (snip...)Clement Ader called his construction l'avion after avis=bird. Avion is still the official French name for an airplane.

If Ader had greater success with powered flight, then we would likely call heavier-than-air flying machines l'Avions, or Avions. He wasn't that far off.
 
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