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Benjamin Hotchkiss was born in Watertown, Connecticut in 1826.

He invented an improved type of cannon shell, a revolving-barrel machine gun (1872) and a bolt-action magazine rifle (1875).

Hotchkiss died in 1885 but his company continued to produce the machine-gun and in 1897 it was adopted by the French Army.

 

 

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