When it was introduced in 1900, the Kodak Brownie camera sold for just a buck, and it instantly took off. Landing at number 8 on the list, what was the Brownie named for?

The camera was named for a Brownie, which was a Gaelic goblin from folklore popularized in cartoons from Palmer Cox. Cox's series of poetry books and comics featured the "mischievous but kind-hearted" Brownies who said things like "Reward oftimes is slow to fall, To those who earned it best of all."

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