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containing the earliest known usage in print.A widely circulated story holds that the word gadget was 'invented' when Gaget, Gauthier & Cie, the company behind the repoussé construction of the Statue of Liberty (1886), made a small-scale version of the monument and named it after their firm; however this contradicts the evidence that the word was already used before in nautical circles, and the fact that it did not become popular, at least in the USA, until after World War I.Other sources cite a derivation from the French gâchette which has been applied to various pieces of a firing mechanism, or the French gagée, a small tool or accessory.The October 1918 issue of Notes and Queries contains a multi-article entry on the word 'gadget' (12 S. iv. 187). H. Tapley-Soper of The City Library, Exeter, writes:A discussion arose at the Plymouth meeting of the Devonshire Association in 1916 when it was suggested that this word should be recorded in the list of local verbal provincialisms. Several members dissented from its inclusion on the ground that it is in.