Technology and Gadgets

The origin of the word "gadget" to back the years 1800. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, there is anecdotal evidence for the use of "gadgets" as a name for a technique which point a name can not remember the years since 1850, with Robert Brown's 1886 book and Spunyarn Spindrift, a sailor boy 'a newspaper travel and hospitality in a tea-China clipper containing the earliest known use of printing. [2] The etymology of the word is disputed. One widely circulated story is of the opinion that the word gadget was "invented" when Gaget, Gauthier & Cie, the company behind the casting of the Statue of Liberty (1886), made a small version of this monument, named after their farm, but this contradicted the evidence that the word has already been used before in marine environments, and the fact that it did not become popular until after the First World War [2] Other sources cite a derivation of the trigger french which has been applied to various pieces of a firing mechanism, or french gagée, a small tool or an accessory. [2] The spring-clip used to store the basis of a vessel during glass-making is also known as a gadget. [edit] The first atomic bomb was nicknamed the gadget by scientists of the Manhattan Project, tested in Trinidad.