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