A widely circulated story holds that the word gadget was "invented" when Gaget, Gauthier & Cie, the company behind the repouss construction of the Statue of Liberty (1886), made a small-scale version of the monument and named it after their firm; however this contradicts the evidence that the word was already used before in nautical circles, and the fact that it did not become popular, at least in the US, until after World War I.[5] Other sources cite a derivation from the French gchette which has been applied to various pieces of a firing mechanism, or the French gage, a small tool or accessory.[5]