英语词汇equalizer的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

equalizer. Inventors Daniel B. Wesson and Horace Smith founded the Smith & Wesson Arms Company at Springfield, Massachusetts, three years after they published the first fire- arms magazine in 1854. Their Smith & Wesson pistols replaced the Colt to a large extent and have been famous ever since. It is said that the term equalizer derives from a remark made by Chicago gangster Tim Smith, who died in a gangland killing on June 26, 1928. “Smith and Wesson made all men equal,” this non-related Smith is supposed to have said.

词汇	equalizer
词源	equalizer. Inventors Daniel B. Wesson and Horace Smith founded the Smith & Wesson Arms Company at Springfield, Massachusetts, three years after they published the first fire- arms magazine in 1854. Their Smith & Wesson pistols replaced the Colt to a large extent and have been famous ever since. It is said that the term equalizer derives from a remark made by Chicago gangster Tim Smith, who died in a gangland killing on June 26, 1928. “Smith and Wesson made all men equal,” this non-related Smith is supposed to have said.
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