History
The history of the nail comprises roughly three distinct periods:
- the period of the hand-wrought (forged) nail (pre-history until about 1800)
- the period of the cut nail (roughly 1800 to 1900)
- the period of the wire nail (roughly 1900 to the present)
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Famous quotes containing the word history:
“Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
“The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)