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Gardening Tools Grow More Sophisticated
From: The Washington Post
Date: 20050423
Author:Joel M. Lerner
"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all," wrote Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle in 1833.
Today's gardening implements are a bit more sophisticated than Carlyle used in Victorian times and are far more advanced than when we became tool-using animals, about 42,000 years ago during the Paleolithic era. Then, landscape implements were made of bone, such as digging sticks fashioned from the rib of a beast or a mattock pick split from a tusk. Now, tools are made of plastic, rubber, metal and fiberglass, with batteries, transformers, motion sensors and water- ...
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