A type of automatic gun or rapid-fire rifle developed in the late 1800s, named after its American inventor Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss.
Proper noun derived from the inventor's surname. Hotchkiss designed innovative weapons including the Hotchkiss gun used in the Spanish-American War and other conflicts.
Benjamin Hotchkiss revolutionized weaponry by creating one of the first truly reliable automatic guns, which changed military tactics forever—wars were never the same after rapid-fire weapons entered the battlefield!
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