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So begins this detective story tracing the history of the screwdriver back from the first source he consults, which claims it is a nineteenth-century invention. Even the Oxford English Dictionary cites 1812 as the first instance of the word in print Gradually, the road leads back to the mention of a turnscrew, the word for a screwdriver in the Midlands and North of England. Since this is a literal translation of tournevis, the French for screwdriver, the author consults Diderot and d''Alembert''s Encyclopedie, where he finds several screwdrivers. drillpressmanuals We drillpressmanuals are now back to 1765, and shortly to 1723, the date of the first known mention of tournevis.

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