A gadget is a device that has a purpose and a specific function, usually of small proportions, practical and yet innovative. The gadgets tend to have a design ingenious than the current technology.
is usually thought that the word was invented about 80 years in the U.S., but in reality its coinage dates back to 1884-5 by the company Gaget, Gauthier & Co, in charge of casting Statue of Liberty, which the approaching date of the inauguration wanted some publicity and began selling small-scale replica of the famous lady.
The first atomic bomb was called gadget by Manhattan Project scientists, to be experienced in the Trinity test.
In fiction, are popular spy films, especially in the James Bond series or the series of Iron Maiden and Batman, always dependent on their computers. Another celebrity cartoon equipped with an assortment of gadgets, was the Inspector Gadget.
Although English is used that word in technology circles because of the influence of English, is not reflected in the RAE (Royal English Academy). Other possible synonyms are appropriate and perhaps chessman, gadgets, utility, appliance or tool.
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