Creativity fuels ideas.
Ideas spawn invention, and invention necessitates tools.
Okay, let's dig a little deeper and think about the differences among tools as they relate to specific fields. Perhaps the single most prolific time of tool manufacturing was the industrial revolution. England during the 18th and 19th centuries certainly had no deficit of skilled laborers. So, rather than replacing English workers, the English invented machines and tools that made workers' work more precise, and that allowed them to work with greater ease and efficiency. America, the needs of a new nation required a rapid and simple means of production.