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On May 9, 1933, Thompson received the patent for the cross-shaped screw head and the hand tool used to drive it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
He retrieved a backpack with water from his engine, sprayed into the ground with a couple gallons of water and dug up the dirt with his hand tool until he was satisfied it was cool.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2026
Bowed at any other point, the instrument reverts to being a useful, but unmusical, hand tool.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2022
Another 2,700 people sought medical attention after an accident with a non-powered hand tool, such as a hammer or a saw, and 349 were admitted to hospital after tussles with a lawnmower.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2022
The hand tool, therefore, should be considered both as an object of appealing shape and a document illustrative of society and its progress.
From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Welsh, Peter C.
The tools they use are very primitive; the hoe being the principal hand-tool, and the plough of ancient use for animal power.
From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Shute, A. B.
"Go get from the barn the pliers, the hand-tool that pinches."
From Blind Man's Lantern by Schelling, George Luther
The proposal to revert to the older competitive plan is reminiscent of the outcry against machine production a century earlier, and the earnest pleas then made to return to the hand-tool method.
From Problems of Conduct by Drake, Durant
The divergence from European to an Anglo-American hand-tool design and the approximate date that it occurred can be suggested by a comparison of contemporary illustrations.
From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Welsh, Peter C.
This quest motivated three centuries of toolmakers and brought vitality to hand-tool design.
From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Welsh, Peter C.
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