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Show FldST TOOL WA8. THE 'rMER. Also Used In the Earliest Ages as a ' ' ' Weapon. v The hammer, besides, being a tool of unlvorsal use. Is probably .the old. 'est representative of a. . mechanic's tool kit. The hammer was originally, a stono fastened to a handle with 'thongs, and It was , as useful as a weapon, as , a i tool. 1M ; ' , Hammers, are repespnj.ed., on,,,th left monuments, of Egypt .jig centuries' beforo our era. They, greatly1 Vdsem ble tho hammer How In use',' savev;tha't there woro no clawa on the back 'tor the extraction of nails. Claw hammers ham-mers wej-e Invented , sqmo' time, .dur-, lng' the Middle 'Aes. IUuirilnatticI, ma'nuscrlpts !6t the' 66v4ntH dent'ury15 repnisent- carpeh'ters with claV ham-' mers. ' Hammers- aro ot all slzc3, from the1 dainty Instruments used by the Jewel--or, "which' weigh 'less than half an ounce, lo' tho gigantic 56-fbri hammer for shipbuilding establishments;' some 'of which' havo a falling force of frdm '90 to 100.. tons. Every trado has Its 'own hammer and Its own way 'of using It- |