- Hotchkiss
Hotchkiss may refer to:
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Benjamin B. Hotchkiss - a 19th century American engineer
**Hotchkiss et Cie - Hotchkiss Company, a French arms and car manufacturer set up by Benjamin Hotchkiss; full name: Société Anonyme des Anciens Etablissements Hotchkiss et Cie
***Hotchkiss gun - a product of the Hotchkiss company
***Hotchkiss machine gun - a product of the Hotchkiss company
***Hotchkiss (automobile) - a product of the Hotchkiss company
***Hotchkiss drive - Automotivepower transmission first used by the Hotchkiss company
***Hotchkiss H35 (H38, H39) - a French light tank developed prior to World War II by the Hotchkiss company.
**Maria Bissell Hotchkiss - wife of Benjamin B. Hotchkiss and founder of Hotchkiss School and Hotchkiss Library
***The Hotchkiss School - a preparatory school inConnecticut ,USA
*Jedediah Hotchkiss - acartographer for the Confederate Army during theAmerican Civil War
*William Hotchkiss III - former commanding general of thePhilippine Air Force
*Hotchkiss, Colorado - a town in theUSA
* "Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School ", two films, from 1990 and 2005"Hotchkiss"(ホチキス or alternatively ホッチキス in Japanese, 호치키스 in Korean)is also the generic name for office
stapler s inJapan andKorea , almost certainly deriving from the brand name of early staplers, in much the same way as "Hoover" is used as a generic name for vacuum cleaners in the UK. As explained in [http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/hotchkiss.html this article] , the name derives from an American company namedE H Hotchkiss which made staplers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many Japanese sources erroneously attribute the name toBenjamin B. Hotchkiss , who may have been an uncle ofE H Hotchkiss .The
surname "Hotchkiss" is a variant ofHodgkin .
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