"gadget" antedated (?) to 1884

[Garson O'Toole]

Stephen Goranson wrote:
> OED has 1886; "Origin obscure."
>
> Amateur work, illustrated (London, New York, Ward, Lock & Co.), vol.4, 1884=
> , page 148, col. 3, lines 9-13:
>
> Grinding is tedious you say. So it is.  How shall we lighten it? _Eureka_! =
> Get the secret accelerating "gadget."
> Clap it on and presto!

Nice find. Thanks Stephen. I was unable to get the link to work
because it was split/wrapped by some intermediate program. Here are
some shorter links for list readers:

Link to the book:
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101049993445

Link to page 148. The quote is in column 3 near the top of the page as
Stephen states
http://goo.gl/iKgyu
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101049993445?urlappend=%3Bseq=162


> Continuation of orginal message from  Stephen Goranson
> For the context, see:
>
> http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=3Dnjp.32101049993445;view=3Dimage;seq=
> =3D162;q1=3Dgadget;start=3D1;size=3D10;page=3Dsearch;num=3D148
>
> Stephen Goranson
> http://www.duke.edu/~goranson
>
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