Hotchkiss
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expanding on the Japanese term, with a link to my article.
'''Hotchkiss''' may refer to:
* [[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]] - Automotive [[power 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 in [[Connecticut]], [[USA]]
* [[Jedediah Hotchkiss]] - a [[cartographer]] for the [[Confederate States Army|Confederate Army]] during the [[American Civil War]]
* [[William Hotchkiss III]] - former commanding general of the [[Philippine Air Force]]
* [[Hotchkiss, Colorado]] - a town in the [[USA]]
* ''[[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 in [[Japan]] and [[Korea]], almost certainly deriving from the brand name of early staplers, in much the same way as "[[The Hoover Company|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 named [[E H Hotchkiss]] which made staplers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many Japanese sources erroneously attribute the name to [[Benjamin B. Hotchkiss]], who may have been an uncle of [[E H Hotchkiss]].
The [[surname]] "Hotchkiss" is a variant of [[Hodgkin]].
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