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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
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.
"Go get from the barn the pliers, the hand-tool that pinches."
From Blind Man's Lantern by Schelling, George Luther
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.
This quest motivated three centuries of toolmakers and brought vitality to hand-tool design.
From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Welsh, Peter C.
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
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
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