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A hand tool is any tool that is powered by hand rather than a motor. [1] Categories of hand tools include wrenches, pliers, cutters, files, striking tools, struck or hammered tools, screwdrivers, vises, clamps, snips, hacksaws, drills, and knives. Outdoor tools such as garden forks, pruning shears, and rakes are additional forms of hand tools.
Tweezers. Two types of modern-day conventional metal tweezers with pointed tips. A pair of bronze tweezers attributed to the Minoan civilization, c. 2900–1050 B.C. Tweezers are small hand tools used for grasping objects too small to be easily handled with the human fingers. Tweezers are thumb-driven forceps most likely derived from tongs used ...
Scissors are hand-operated shearing tools. A pair of scissors consists of a pair of blades pivoted so that the sharpened edges slide against each other when the handles (bows) opposite to the pivot are closed. Scissors are used for cutting various thin materials, such as paper, cardboard, metal foil, cloth, rope, and wire.
Shaping tools, such as molds, jigs, trowels. Fastening tools, such as welders, soldering irons, rivet guns, nail guns, or glue guns. Some tools may be combinations of other tools. An alarm-clock is for example a combination of a measuring tool (the clock) and a perception tool (the alarm).
A modern claw hammer suited to drive and remove nails. Cartwheel mallets with heads of felt held between steel washers for use with timpani drums. Detail of the head of a war hammer. A geologist's hammer used to break up rocks, as seen in archaeology and prospecting. A hammer is a tool, most often a hand tool, consisting of a weighted "head ...
Pincers are a hand tool used in many situations where a mechanical advantage is required to pinch, cut or pull an object. Pincers are first-class levers, but differ from pliers in that the concentration of force is either to a point, or to an edge perpendicular to the length of the tool. This allows pincers to be brought close to a surface ...
Shovel. A shovel is a tool used for digging, lifting, and moving bulk materials, such as soil, coal, gravel, snow, sand, or ore. [1] Most shovels are hand tools consisting of a broad blade fixed to a medium-length handle. Shovel blades are usually made of sheet steel or hard plastics and are very strong. Shovel handles are usually made of wood ...
Tongs for grilling, and tongs for serving salad or spaghetti are kitchen utensils of the same type. They provide a way to move, rotate and turn the food with delicate precision, or fetch a full serving in one grab. Tongs consist a single band of bent metal, as in sugar tongs, most asparagus tongs (which are no longer common) [3] and the like.