Thread: Tool Quizz

I was thinking a toadstool - they constantly reproduce through spores they release!

Hammer.

I can go out to the smithy, pick up a hammer, take a bit of metal, heat it up, and use my hammer to make another hammer.

In James Naysmith's autobigraphy, he described how he made his first metal lathe using his father's lathe when he was about 12, then proceeded to make other lathes for sale. He made better lathes which then made milling machines etc., and his business grew into an industrial empire. The interesting point he made later is that all this multitude of larger engineering machines were the progeny of his first lathe, direct and indirect descendants! I love it, especially when you think that so many of these early machines went to factories that in their turn developed the great British industry of the Victorian era...and onwards. And many times removed, had a part in your lathe at home!!

Cheers,

This is a bit late, but how about a "toadstool"