| Man in history, although much more primitive than | | | | hand to fitting a handle to it. This gave the blow |
| those who live today, used his brain and made | | | | much more force and so made it easier to cut |
| implements and devices which would help him to | | | | wood or break open heads. Long flints were fixed |
| survive. He had to have food to live and he had | | | | to wooden handles. If the handles were long, they |
| to defend himself from wild animals which roamed | | | | had spears, short handles made knives. |
| the forests. He had his bare hands, but a hand | | | | Gradually stone way replace by metal. All antique |
| can only do certain number of things; and although | | | | tools are the product of primitive tools. Planes, |
| it is quite useful for delicate operations like picking | | | | saws and chisels are all antique tools developed by |
| out thorns and splinters, it is useless for cutting up | | | | carpenters over many centuries. Each one got its |
| meat or skinning animals. Something else had to | | | | shape and size by a gradual evolution. What we |
| be found and man invented tools. | | | | use is the modern version of these antique tools. |
| The simplest tool which man used was a stone. A | | | | Carpenters have to do other things with the |
| stone of the right shape and weight could be used | | | | wood apart from cutting it. Drills and awls make a |
| to club animal to death, to hack lumps of flesh | | | | neat hole and the earliest was a twisted round a |
| from it or to break open nuts and shells. The | | | | sharp twig. The string turned the drill first |
| easiest way of getting such a stone was to look | | | | clockwise and then anti-clockwise. This has now |
| for it. Another way which also improved the | | | | been replaced by a rotating handle which drives |
| shape was to chip or grind the stone with a | | | | the borer or hit through gears. Antique tools were |
| harder one. | | | | very important devices. It was used very |
| The best stone for making tools was flint. These | | | | accurately and properly to get the work done. |
| tools made by primitive man are called hand-axes | | | | The development of primitive tools to antique |
| now. They are thought to have been used in all | | | | tools the recent machine tools has taken the |
| kinds of way such as for chopping and cutting | | | | evolution from stone hand-axes to power tools |
| wood, for digging and even as weapons. | | | | one step further. |
| It was a short step from holding the axe in the | | | | |