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A "virgin screwdriver" is a mocktail (non-alcoholic variation), usually made with orange juice and tonic water. [15] [16] [17] A screwdriver with apple juice instead of orange juice is an "Anita Bryant cocktail". [18] Bryant was an American singer and spokeswoman for the Florida Citrus Commission during the 1960s and 1970s. [19]
Robertson screwdrivers are easy to use one-handed, because the tapered socket tends to retain the screw, even if it is shaken. [ 3 ] : 85–86 They also allow the use of angled screwdrivers and trim-head screws.
The history of smashes goes back at least as far as the 1862 book How to Mix Drinks. [33] The old-style whiskey smash was an example of an early smash. [34] The herb used in a smash is often mint, although basil is sometimes used in cocktails that go well with it, e.g. many strawberry cocktails.
Examples include the Seven and Seven, Scotch and soda, gin and tonic, screwdriver (a.k.a. vodka and orange juice), fernet con coca, Tom Collins, and rum and Coke (a.k.a. Cuba libre with the addition of lime juice).
The trade name "Yankee" screwdriver was first marketed by North Brothers Manufacturing Company in ≈16 April 1895, with the No. ≠130 spiral ratchet screwdriver. Yankee soon became and still is a well-known name in automatic spiral ratchet screwdrivers , with several other models, and model improvements patented by North Bros. over a 40-year ...
Normally, the two drive syringes are the same size, to achieve a mixing ratio of 1:1, but syringes of different sizes can be combined to obtain other mixing ratios up to 1:10 or 1:20. This so called asymmetric, or ratio mixing, is a common requirement in stopped-flow work.
Originally focusing on spiral ratchet and "plain" screwdrivers they soon expanded to various types of hand tools and eventually became a significant force in the tool industry. Eventually the success of the Yankee line of tools led the Stanley Works tool company to acquire the North Bros. in 1946, chiefly to improve their own product lines.
Proper use requires that the screwdriver's tip engage the head of a screw of the same size and type designation as the screwdriver tip. Screwdriver tips are available in a wide variety of types and sizes (List of screw drives). The two most common are the simple 'blade'-type for slotted screws, and Phillips, generically called "cross-recess ...