We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Makita has been a household name in power tools for decades. Since 1958, in fact, when the company produced its first power tool — a portable ...

Archaeologists are uncovering toolkits and watercraft that do not sit neatly inside the familiar story of slow, linear progress from scattered foragers to settled farmers. Instead, these finds hint at ...

Most tools are here to stay. The hammer has been around as long as we have needed to apply force to other objects, and the crowbar has been with us as long as we've needed leverage to pry something up ...