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Shown here are: A. Ball-peen hammer B. Straight-peen hammer C. Cross-peen hammer The claw of a carpenter's hammer is frequently used to remove nails. A large hammer-like tool is a maul (sometimes called a "beetle"), a wood- or rubber-headed hammer is a mallet , and a hammer-like tool with a cutting blade is usually called a hatchet .
A war hammer (French: martel-de-fer, "iron hammer") is a weapon that was used by both foot soldiers and cavalry. It is a very old weapon and gave its name, owing to its constant use, to Judah Maccabee, a 2nd-century BC Jewish rebel, and to Charles Martel, one of the rulers of France. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the war hammer became an ...
A 1960s trip hammer placed at Trattenbach village, Lower Austria The same trip hammer in operation, shaping a folding knife at the strike area. A trip hammer, also known as a tilt hammer or helve hammer, is a massive powered hammer. Traditional uses of trip hammers include pounding, decorticating and polishing of grain in agriculture.
A drilling hammer, [5] club hammer, lump hammer, crack hammer, mini-sledge or thor hammer is a small sledgehammer whose relatively light weight and short handle allow one-handed use. [6] It is useful for light demolition work, driving masonry nails, and for use with a steel chisel when cutting stone or metal. [ 7 ]
Hammer (Improvised) Hanbō (Japanese) Horseman's pick, horseman's hammer, martel de fer, also a pickaxe weapon (European) Jawbone war club (American) Jō (Japanese) Jutte, jitte (Japanese) Kanabō (Japanese) Knobkierrie, knopkierie, knobkerry (African) Kotiate (Māori) Kurunthadi, churuvadi, kuruvadi, muchan, otta (Indian) Macana (American)
The Creusot steam hammer was a giant steam hammer built in 1877 by Schneider and Co. in the French industrial town of Le Creusot. With the ability to deliver a blow of up to 100 tons, the Creusot hammer was the largest and most powerful in the world. [37] A wooden replica was built for the Exposition Universelle (1878) in Paris.
Undershot and stream wheel use large flows at little or no head. There is often an associated millpond , a reservoir for storing water and hence energy until it is needed. Larger heads store more gravitational potential energy for the same amount of water so the reservoirs for overshot and backshot wheels tend to be smaller than for breast shot ...