Saturday, January 30, 2010

The Romans Had Them First

The Swiss Army did not invent the folding multi-purpose tool. This Roman contraption, dating to around 200 AD, included a knife blade (the rusted thing), a spoon, a fork, a toothpick, a small spike, and that little hooked blade, which may have been for getting cooking oil out of small bottles.

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