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Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Abstract It is an often overlooked fact that someone, somewhere, is physically working to produce the things we use and a good deal of the environment we live in, for good or bad; that virtually every thing we know is a product of human labor. The essay tries to address this by looking at tools, and focuses on some varieties of that simple but essential tool, the hammer—a tool whose origins are prehistoric. It looks at woodworking hammers, at stone-breaking and cutting hammers, and finally at some of the hammers used in metalworking. The list is by no means definitive, but hopefully gives a broad understanding of how versatile this tool is, and also how it has been carefully adapted to suit different materials. The essay ends by referring to mythical hammers, most specifically Mjölnir the “murder greedy.”