POLO4D A crowbar provides leverage for prying and demolition tasks, while pliers and a wrench are crucial for gripping and turning objects. Other must-have tools listed include a utility knife for precise cutting tasks, a level for ensuring surfaces are plumb and level, a handsaw for manual cutting, and a tape measure for accurate measurement in any project. Using an aide to bore, strike, cut, measure or hold has become an essential ingredient in human progress; hence, the home workshop filled with timeworn hand tools. From ancient Archimedes' early descriptions of lever and pulley systems to Greek philosophers who recorded wheel and axle mechanisms, humans have a substantial history involving hand tools.|This Electronics-related Article is a Stub