A widely circulated story holds that the word gadget
A widely circulated story holds that the word gadget was invented when Gadget Gauthier 13377x the company behind the repousse construction of the Statue of Liberty 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.
