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The first locking pliers, with the trade name Vise-Grip, were invented by William S. Petersen in De Witt, Nebraska, United States in 1924. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Later, in 1955, in the United Kingdom, M K Mole and Son, a hand tool manufacturing company, under the managing direction of Thomas Coughtrie , began making nearly identical pliers.
A bench vise, B machine vise, C hand vise. A vise or vice (British English) is a mechanical apparatus used to secure an object to allow work to be performed on it.Vises have two parallel jaws, one fixed and the other movable, threaded in and out by a screw and lever.
CM Punk doing an anaconda vise on Mike Knox. The anaconda vise is a compression choke. The wrestler wraps their arms around the head and one arm of the opponent and squeezes, choking the opponent. It is considered legal in professional wrestling, although it is a chokehold. This submission hold was invented by Hiroyoshi Tenzan.
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Mole branded Self-grip wrench locking pliers. Thomas Robb Coughtrie (25 November 1917 – 27 August 2008) was a chartered engineer from Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland.. He was credited by The Times as the inventor of the self-grip Mole wrench [1] although this conflicts with other sources which show the invention of the Vise-Grip locking pliers [2] in Nebraska, United States, with an ...
Apple may soon be forced to loosen its vice-like grip on its App Store, as regulators from the U.S. to South Korea zero in on the tech giant’s high-margin business.
Medieval pincers found in Hamburg-Harburg (15th/16th century) As pliers in the general sense are an ancient and simple invention, no single inventor can be credited.Early metal working processes from several millennia BCE would have required plier-like devices to handle hot materials in the process of smithing or casting.
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