stackyFACTSThe foundation of modern power tools was born purely out of sheer annoyance at aggressive inefficiency.
The foundation of modern power tools was born purely out of sheer annoyance at aggressive inefficiency. In the early 1800s, a Shaker woman named Tabitha Babbitt watched men painstakingly cutting wood with a two-man pit saw, constantly wasting energy pushing the blade back and forth. She violently removed a circular metal blade from her loom, attached it to her spinning wheel, and proved that continuous rotation was aggressively superior.
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