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Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss

American engineer

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development of

    • Hotchkiss machine gun
      • In Hotchkiss machine gun

        …weapon developed in 1878 by Benjamin B. Hotchkiss (1826–85), a U.S. ordnance engineer with a factory in Paris. It was first used by the French army in 1896.

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    • torpedo boat guns
      • USS Carl Vinson
        In warship: Armament

        Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss, an American ordnance engineer with a factory in Paris, produced a series of one-, three-, and six-pounder rapid-fire guns that vastly increased the rate of fire for small guns.

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