TY - JOUR AB - IT is a long time since The Life of Johnson defined man as a tool‐making animal, and the tools he used in those days were primitive when contrasted with the precise, complicated and sophisticated ones employed today. Early tools were really evolved through centuries as necessary extensions of a man's arms. A spade gave them leverage and a longer reach. VL - 14 IS - 4 SN - 0043-8022 DO - 10.1108/eb048194 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb048194 PY - 1965 Y1 - 1965/01/01 TI - Work Study Volume 14 Issue 4 T2 - Work Study PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 9 EP - 53 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -