Hotchkiss
Revolving cannon type
Hotchkiss is a proper name most associated with Benjamin Hotchkiss, a 19th-century American inventor of military weapons.
The Hotchkiss gun was an early machine gun and revolving cannon used by various armies.
Hotchkiss is also the name of a prestigious prep school in Connecticut: He went to Hotchkiss before Yale.
Continuous-fire arm
- rapid-fireIn swift succession
- automaticOperating without intervention
- breech-loadingFed from the back
- artilleryLarge-caliber battlefield weapons
ordnance · ammunition · cartridge · caliber · recoil · barrage · salvo · turret
Readiness work, abbreviated
- boardingEntering a vehicle
- academyInstitution of learning
- eliteSuperior select group
- ConnecticutNortheastern American state
campus · dormitory · admissions · alumni · faculty · headmaster · tuition · scholarship
From the U.S.
- engineerTechnical design professional
- designerOne who plans appearances
- patentsExclusive rights to inventions
- innovationCreating something original
manufacturing · firearms · 19th century · munitions · entrepreneur · industrialist
machine gun
Continuous-fire arm
- rapid-fireIn swift succession
- automaticOperating without intervention
- breech-loadingFed from the back
artillery · ordnance · ammunition · cartridge · caliber · recoil · barrage · salvo · turret · armament
prep
Readiness work, abbreviated
Connecticut · campus · dormitory · admissions · alumni · faculty · headmaster · tuition · scholarship · curriculum
American
From the U.S.
- engineerTechnical design professional
- designerOne who plans appearances
- patentsExclusive rights to inventions
innovation · manufacturing · firearms · 19th century · munitions · entrepreneur · industrialist