为啥扳手叫Allen wrench

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为啥扳手叫Allen wrench
英文里面为啥把扳手叫成Allen wrench,内六角扳手叫成Allen Key?莫非真是叫Allen的人发明的?其他工具有类似的叫法么?

The Allen wrench trademark of the Allen Manufacturing Company of Hartford,Connecticut was taken out in 1943,and Allen became such a successful brand of hex key that many consumers in subsequent decades have assumed that the internal-wrenching hexagon drive was invented by someone named Allen.This idea abounds in print and on the web; it sounds very plausible but is in fact inaccurate.
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