Xcelite Tools Company History amp Lore

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Xcelite was the first company to make a plastic handle screwdriver, and also the first to coin the term nut driver . • Their color coded nut drivers were frequently used by electronics technicians and hobbiests from the 1940's all the way to today. • An Xcelite screwdriver is believed to have been used by Louis Slotin in the 1946 Demon Core incident, at the Los Alamos testing lab. • In this video we go over the histroy of Xcelite. • From Park Metalware in the 1920's to Xcelite by Weller and present day. • • Demon Core Incident: • https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals... • • Park Metalware patents: • https://patents.google.com/?assignee=... • https://patents.google.com/?inventor=... • • 1924 Wire Connector: • https://www.google.com/books/edition/... • • 1936 Catalog (screwdrivers): • https://archive.org/details/park-meta... • • 1960 Catalog: • https://archive.org/details/XceliteCa... • • 1966 Catalog: • https://archive.org/details/bitsavers... • • 1982 Catalog: • https://archive.org/details/XceliteCo... • • Los Alamos cover: • https://archive.org/details/los-alamo... • • 00:00 Demon Core Incident • 00:54 Park Metalware • 01:44 The Nut Driver • 02:22 Xcelite Innovations • 03:40 The Cooper Era • 04:02 The Apex Era • 05:07 Outro • 05:38 Moar Demon Core

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