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mamadebHow strange am I?
My husband gave me more presents today. (He's getting steak for dinner as an extra present tonight.) One is the natural history of the screw and screwdriver.
I jumped up and down when I found it.
My goodness, doesn't it sound absolutely fascinating? Just - it's one of the few entirely modern unpowered tools we have and just to see how it developed (my theory - the ability to make threads came first, and then the screw and then finally the screwdriver. Either that or it evolved from the drill. Either way, it should be fun to find out) is cool.
Right?
Or am I strange?
My husband gave me more presents today. (He's getting steak for dinner as an extra present tonight.) One is the natural history of the screw and screwdriver.
I jumped up and down when I found it.
My goodness, doesn't it sound absolutely fascinating? Just - it's one of the few entirely modern unpowered tools we have and just to see how it developed (my theory - the ability to make threads came first, and then the screw and then finally the screwdriver. Either that or it evolved from the drill. Either way, it should be fun to find out) is cool.
Right?
Or am I strange?
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Date: 2004-03-11 02:20 pm (UTC)Speaking of screws and screwdrivers, I noticed something interesting the other day. I have an antique dining table and chairs (only two, sadly) that were originally owned by my g'g'grandmother. It was probably made ~1870. Some of the original wood fasteners on the chairs have modern looking screw heads--round, domed, and with a screwdriver-type slot in them. I know wooden fasteners have always been used, but wooden *screws*? It had never occurred to me before.