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Introduced era places a tool in the period when it first came into use. Wikipedia states, "Early human tools, made of such materials as stone, bone, and wood, were used for the preparation of food, hunting, the manufacture of weapons, and the working of materials," long before metal or powered tools existed. Browsing by era shows how the tools used in home crafts have developed over a very long span of time.

Introduced Era

1589

1680

16th century

1733

1769-1775

1770

1777 (first known patent)

1785

17th century

17th century (earliest attested use of the name, in Britain)

1800

1840

1850

1861

1863 (ratcheting socket wrench patented)

1870

1874, patented by John Hawley

1877

1881

1886

1888

1891 (Modell 1890, official military designation)

1896

18th century (wagon or tail vise form, probably Germany)

1906 (first portable power router patented)

1909

1920

1924

1925

1931 (first torque wrench patent filed)

1934

1947

1950 (first pneumatic nail gun introduced to market)

1954

1964 (power miter saw)

2010

Antiquity (no precise date established)

Before February 2, 1661

Circa 14th century (earliest depicted evidence)

circa 17th century

circa 1802

circa 1843

circa 1844

circa 1863

circa 1871

circa 1904

circa 1910

circa 1914

circa 1915

circa 1919 (Deep Creek, Colorado)

circa 1920s

circa 1967

circa 1983

circa 1st century BC

circa 3000 BC

circa 3rd century AD

circa 450 to 800 AD (Migration Period and Early Middle Ages)

circa 5100 BCE

Circa 6000 BCE

circa Bronze Age

circa Middle Paleolithic

Documented by 1514 (Albrecht Durer's etching Melencolia I)

Egyptian times

In use since at least the time of ancient Egypt

Late 15th century (Germany or France)

mid-1940s

Nineteenth century, with the emergence of crochet itself

not dated in source consulted

Not established by the sources consulted

over a thousand years ago

Roman era (earliest known archaeological record)

Term documented from circa 1400

Used in ancient Egypt and mentioned in Homer's Iliad