10 Facts About Today

#4 - Tools | March 11, 2020

Episode Summary

Today is National Worship of Tools Day. Tools have literally built the world we live in, so here are 10 Powerful Facts About Tools that you didn’t know, that you didn’t need to know.

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March 11th, 2020 - 10 Powerful Facts About Tools

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Today is National Worship of Tools Day. Tools have literally built the world we live in, so here are 10 Powerful Facts About Tools that you didn’t know, that you didn’t need to know:

1. A nail-gun shoots nails at 1400 feet per second
2. The first power tool was invented in 1895
3. Duncan Black and Alonzo Decker made a drill based off a Colt .45 automatic pistol
4. The first jigsaw was just an modified sewing machine
5. SawStop makes a flesh-detecting table saw
6. The portable saw was invented to cut sugar cane not wood. 
7. The first "power" tool ran off of water. It was a lathe powered by a water wheel. 
8. The earliest known tools were found in Kenya in 2011 and 2012. They were 3.3 million years old. <3
9. The oldest tools ever found weren’t made by humans. They were made 700000 years before Homo Genius emerged. The earliest Human tools date back to 2.6 million years. 
10. Ancient Romans made hammers and Planes. Ancient Egyptians made saws and squares.