This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. TOOLS AND MECHANICAL DEVICES. "What a plastic little creature man is! so shifty, so adaptive! his body a chest of tools, and he making himself comfortable in every climate, in every condition."--Emerson. Among inventions, the class of objects that are not an end in themselves, but which ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. TOOLS AND MECHANICAL DEVICES. "What a plastic little creature man is! so shifty, so adaptive! his body a chest of tools, and he making himself comfortable in every climate, in every condition."--Emerson. Among inventions, the class of objects that are not an end in themselves, but which are used as means to ends, occupy a very prominent place. They are covered by such terms v as "tools," "implements," "machines." Many of these are the apparatus of special crafts, and should be considered among the inventions belonging to1 those crafts. But a great many of them have come down from remote antiquity, and belong to workmen of every trade. The tool chest of the Andamanese, according to Man, would contain a stone anvil, stone hammers, chips, and cooking stones; one or more Cyrena shells for preparing arrow-shafts, for sharpening knives of cane and bamboo; and boar's tusks, for carving spoons, for knives in cutting thatch or meat, for scrapers in separating bast and bark in cord-making, for carving, and even for planes. You would also find Area shells for pot-making, Pinna shells for receptacles, and food plates and Nautilus shells for drinking-cups. The bamboo spear shafts, water holders, food receptacles, knives, netting-needles, tongs, &c., would call attention to the usefulness of that plant. Paint brushes from the drupe of the Pandanus Andamanensium 1 should not be overlooked. 1 E. H. Man, Andaman Islanders, London, 1883, p. 156. Under the head of general appliances for industrial processes may be included tools, mechanical powers, metric apparatus, natural forces, and machinery. M. Adrien de Mortillet has made a classification of simple tools which is adopted here, with additions and modifications.1 I. For Cutting. Edge Tools....
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