A brief history of the bar |
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Some archaeologists believe that bar-type tools’ simple shapes and wide range of common uses suggest that their predecessors may have been among the first tools used by early humans. | |||
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Early humankind’s nomadic lifestyle required a wide range of simply constructed, versatile tools.
It is likely that early bars would have been carved from tough wood, bone or tusk. |
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Other estimates place the bar’s development in the early 1400s, when the first references to the ‘iron crow’ (crowbar) are seen in literature and letters. | |||
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The name ‘iron crow’ came into common usage because of the black beak and splayed foot of the wrecking bar, thought to resemble a crow’s.
Over time, ‘iron crow’ became ‘crow bar’, a name which has come to be used by many as a catch-all term for a wide range of varied bars – but which, used properly, actually refers to the large crowbar. |
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