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A drill is a tool used for making round holes or driving fasteners. It is fitted with a bit, either a drill or driver chuck. Hand-operated types are dramatically decreasing in popularity and cordless battery-powered ones proliferating due to increased efficiency and ease of use.
A lightweight magnetic-mount drill
A wooden drill brace and other carpentry tools including a mallet, plane, spokeshave, and rudimentary ruler) found on board the 16th century warship Mary Rose
Painting by Georges de La Tour of St. Joseph operating an auger
Carpenter using a hand-powered brace to drill a hole
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A tool is an object that can extend an individual's ability to modify features of the surrounding environment or help them accomplish a particular task. Although many animals use simple tools, only human beings, whose use of stone tools dates back hundreds of millennia, have been observed using tools to make other tools.
Carpentry tools recovered from the wreck of a 16th-century sailing ship, the Mary Rose. From the top, a mallet, brace, plane, handle of a T-auger, handle of a gimlet, possible handle of a hammer, and rule.
Prehistoric stone tools over 10,000 years old, found in Les Combarelles cave, France
Bicycle multi-tool
A Bonobo at the San Diego Zoo "fishing" for termites