About Gadged or Gadget

The etymology of the word is uncertain. It is in use in English to 18501 and certified in 18862; can be compared to the trigger words and collateralized (small tool or accessory).

According to other sources, the word proviendrait3 gadget of the French company Gaget-Gauthier who realized miniature of the Statue of Liberty (1886) to promote and fund this project Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. The book I remember the 17th arrondissement of Sylvie Bonin (2001 Parigramme Publishing, ISBN 9782840962328) states (p. 78) that Mr. Gaget, a director of the Paris workshop construction of the Statue of Liberty (rue de Chazelles, Paris), the United States took replicas of the statue 20 centimeters high. Gaget name was written on the base. However phonetics of English is such an American reading the word gaget deliver the "gaguette" not "gadjette" (this pronunciation is rather that corresponding to the gajet spelling).

The term Gadget appears in the Dictionary of Gascon and modern Béarnais Simin Palay, with the sense of "small utensil, and diminutive gadjé, figuratively." There also gadjé "pledge, guarantee, salary, wage, tool, utensil. "Trinket is a synonym.

History
Gadgets seem to have appeared in the late nineteenth century, at a time when some industrial efficiency (eg series production) began to allow their existence. They experienced maximum success between the early 1960s and the late 1980s.

You can get them very cheaply in many organized granaries empty in major cities during sunny days. Some are collections or by type (key chains, bottle openers unusual, etc.) or by themes (cartoon characters, brand advertising, etc.).

Derivatives meaning
Gadget is the name of the atomic bomb prototype tested at the Trinity test July 16, 1945.

It gives the name of "gadgets" to the devices from the brain of the engineer whose Q has the secret agent James Bond. The term is also used for those fitted to other spies in literature, film and television (Austin Powers, Get Smart, Our Man Flint, etc.). Inspector Gadget is the name of a French cartoon of the 1980s, which parodied the spy film, with the adventures of a police inspector with many futuristic gadgets.