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Like the cell phone or the computer itself, certain items, once invented, seem indispensable to daily life. Nearly everyone has tucked away, for instance, a set of hardware tools, either enshrined on a wall in the garage, or consigned to a drawer in a kitchen. In either case, whenever household repairs are required, it’s in these places you hope to find the items you’ll want to fix a door or hang a picture, from the hammer to measuring tapes . The idea of measurement and hammering is perhaps older than recorded history, but when was the hammer invented? When was the tape measure? Here’s the answer to where some of these inventions originated.

Such items as pliars are ancient, with tongs of bronze replacing wooden ones as long ago as 3,000 BC. Hammers are equally ancient, when you consider that the hammer is any device used for pounding, although it wasn’t until 1890 that the first pneumatic hammer was invented by Charles Brady King in Detroit.

While saws have had a long life, the first circular saw came into existence in 1777, invented by Samuel Miller in England (although the circular saw’s history may be earlier ). The tape measure arrived variously in 1868 courtesy of Alvin J. Fellows in New Haven, Connecticut, and in 1829 in Sheffield England where James Chesterman patented the self-winding window blind and the first woven metallic tape.