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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
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
Henry Ward Beecher, impressed by the growing sophistication of the toolmakers, described the hand tool in a most realistic and objective manner as an "extension of a man's hand."
From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Welsh, Peter C.
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 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 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.
Whatever the cause, the result did not persist long as a guide to hand-tool design.
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
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