hammer
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A hammer is a hand tool with a weighted head attached to a handle, primarily used to drive nails into or remove them from surfaces. Hammers have various specialized designs—such as claw hammers for carpentry, mallets for percussion instruments, war hammers for historical combat, and geological hammers for breaking rocks—making them useful across many different trades and activities.
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18 sectionsContents
- History
- Construction and materials
- Designs and variations
- Hand-powered
- Mechanically powered
- Associated tools
- Physics
- As a force amplifier
- Effect of the head's mass
- Effect of the handle
- Effect of gravity
- Ergonomics and injury risks
- War hammers
- Symbolism
- Image gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
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A hammer is a tool, most often a hand tool, consisting of a weighted "head" fixed to a long handle that is swung to deliver an impact to a small area of an object. This can be, for example, to drive nails into wood, to shape metal (as with a forge), or to crush rock. Hammers are used for a wide range of driving, shaping, breaking and non-destructive striking applications. Traditional disciplines include carpentry, blacksmithing, warfare, and percussive musicianship (as with a gong).