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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
Visible from more than half a mile away, the oversized hand tool sits about 15 minutes from the Coachella festival grounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
According to the company’s site, if a Craftsman wrench, screwdriver, hammer or other hand tool “fails to perform for any reason,” the company will replace it, with or without a receipt.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2022
Bowed at any other point, the instrument reverts to being a useful, but unmusical, hand tool.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2022
Flat pieces, such as plates, dishes, saucers, and the like, are made in plaster moulds, on which a bat of soft clay is tightly compressed by a hand tool, called a polisher.
From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by Arnoux, L.
The economy was built around wood cutting, charcoal burning, backward animal husbandry, hand-tool agriculture, hand-craft industry, the rudiments of commerce and finance centered in trading cities.
From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Nearing, Scott
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.
"Go get from the barn the pliers, the hand-tool that pinches."
From Blind Man's Lantern by Schelling, George Luther
The simplest application of a principle of mechanics to an every-day hand-tool may convert it into what is called a machine.
From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Knight, Charles
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