Tools Rare and Ingenious
Subtitle: Celebrating the World's Most Amazing Tools
Publisher: Taunton
Published: October 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781561586561
Subjects: Antiques & Collectables; Reference works; Pictorial works; Woodworking; House & Home; Home Improvement / Construction; Do-It-Yourself; Power Tools; Hand Tools; Crafts & Hobbies / Woodwork; House & Home / Hand Tools; Collectors and collecting; History; Tools
First sentence: The tools produced by the first human creatures to walk the planet were likely the products of serendipity-Og picked up a sharp rock and discovered that he (or she) could use it to skin a mammoth or shape a bone into a useful implement.