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Tools and Simple Machines

This topic set is about simple machines, their uses, history, and experiments. It includes information on tools and their evolutionary history. SCIS no: 1924701

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Stone resources

Stone resources

This map shows the distribution of stone resources utilised by Māori. They were a neolithic people, who relied on stone resources for tools. The most important tools were toki (adzes) and whao (chi...

Carpenters’ tools

Carpenters’ tools

Tools were imported from the great industrial cities of Britain such as Sheffield and Manchester. Carpenters and joiners owned their own tools and took great care of them. They were a considerable ...

Kōhatu – Māori use of stone: Stone tools

When the ancestors of the Māori first arrived in New Zealand from East Polynesia, around 1250 to 1300 AD, they found a wide variety of rock types suitable for making tools, ornaments and other item...

Pounamu – jade or greenstone: Pounamu – several names

Pounamu, greenstone and New Zealand jade are all names for the same hard, durable highly valued stone, used for making adornments, tools and weapons. Each name is used by different groups: Pounamu ...

tool, kitchen

rotary egg beater metal, rusted, metal handles with spiral down to beater ends

Carving Family History - Tales from Te Papa episode 86

Carving Family History - Tales from Te Papa episode 86

Traditional methods of making tools are often lost in the modern age; find out how Kupa and Jack, brothers from Tokelau, have kept alive their grandfather's legacy by learning how to make adzes. TA...

[Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von], 1774-1852 :Waffen und Gerathe der Einwohner von Nukahiwa. Verm. Gegenst. CLXXII, melanges CLXXII [Weimar? 1815-1830?]

[Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von], 1774-1852 :Waffen und Gerathe der Einwohner von Nukahiwa. Verm. Gegenst. CLXXII, melanges CLXXII [Weimar? 1815-1830?]

Shows a centrally placed formal arrangement of crossed spears, paddles, carvings, gourd, axe, fish hook, necklace and a skull on a plaited cord. Each item is labelled with numbers 1 to 13. Accompan...

scales, balance

scales, balance

balance scales as used by Chinese gold buyers in early New Zealand. Given to donor by a Miss Hilliard whose father befriended a Chinese gold buyer who gave him the scales c1880-90.

SIDCHROME. TOOL SET

SIDCHROME. TOOL SET

Shot of Sidchrome tool box and tool set coming towards camera. People working with tools. Wide shot of tool set.

MECHANISATION

A propaganda film promoting the use of machinery in farms and factories. 0 ft. Intertitles: “Mechanisation”. 5 ft. C.U. Hands operating tool for rolling cigarette. 10 ft. C.U. Hands working cow t...

Te hī ika – Māori fishing: Tools, grounds and methods

An array of Polynesian fishing equipment was adapted for conditions in New Zealand: the kupenga (net), aho (line), matau (hook), matira (fishing rod), pātia (spear), tāruke (pot), hīnaki (trap) and...

A catalogue of tools for watch and clock makers

A catalogue of tools for watch and clock makers

Tool academy: Māori artefacts from Redcliffs

Kia ora, Recently we had some great finds from Te Rae Kura/Redcliffs. Unbeknownst to many folks making their daily commute along the Port Hills’ Main Road, a nationally significant Māori archaeolog...

instruments, surgical

instruments, surgical

surgical instruments surgical instruments in a green shagreen case [for domestic use]; instruments: scissor handled tweezers; spatula-like instrument; long handled instrument with small cutting bla...

The Rauner brothers

The Rauner brothers

The Rauner brothers – from left, Edward, George, Tony, Jo and Adam – pose with the tools of their trade. The mighty forests of Pūhoi soon rang with the sound of axes as men carved farms from the bu...

Martin Collection: Gun Cleaning Kit

Martin Collection: Gun Cleaning Kit

Gun cleaning Kit belonging to Andrew Martin (WWI, 2nd Lieutenant, Canterbury Mounted Rifles 7/90) Andrew Martin was born 14 August 1892 and attended Otaio School before joining his father on the fa...

Workshop industries: The first New Zealand workshops

New Zealand’s early industrial workshops were a wide range, from tailors through to umbrella-makers and pumice works. The most common types of workshops in 19th-century New Zealand were aerated-wat...

Hammer

chisel

greenstone scraper. drilled.

Chisel

nails

nails iron nails; 13 handmade, 1 machine made; all handmade nails marked with an "N" next to head of nail

Nail scissors

Cutlery set

This cutlery set, intended for military use, is thought to have belonged to an SS officer. It features the emblem of Nazi Germany: a stylised eagle clutching a wreathed swastika. The heraldic eagle...

Pā kahawai (trolling lure)

Pā kahawai (trolling lure)

Pā kahawai (trolling lure)

Pā kahawai (trolling lure)

Hoe (paddle)

Hue

Hue or calabashes were used to hold water, preserved game and medicines.

Greenstone toki

Greenstone toki

This toki poutangata, the blade of which was made from pounamu (greenstone), was said to represent the authority of rangatira (chiefs) and their leadership of tribes. Toki were among the most highl...

Toki (adze)

This toki (adze) is possibly a toki-hila - a large adze used to carve the hull of vaka (canoes). It comes from the island of Nukunonu in Tokelau, although toki like this are also made in New Zealan...

Patu aruhe (fernroot beater)

Patu aruhe (fernroot beater)

Comb

Pen

A promotional Puke Ariki pen with a silver plastic body bearing Puke Ariki logo in black. A black rubber grip is fitted to the pen.; Plastic; Metal

Wheel

View of an old steel wheel embedded in concrete, on grass in front of a body of water.

axe

axe. Upper Acheulean flint axe. From the Caton-Thompson (1952: 54-58) investigation of Kharga Oasis between 1931-32. Excavation number KO10C 283

Axe

Pit Saws

Stone drills

Tūwiri (drills) had two cords. The tip was a hard, sharp stone. Sand and water were used as an abrasive during drilling.

Knife

Careful with that Axe

Careful with that Axe

This is the first instalment in director Jason Stutter’s hit trilogy of short cautionary tales. The ingredients are simple: playful kid, dangerous tool. A son, left alone after watching his Dad cho...

spinning wheel

spinning wheel , by Nicolson, Wellington

needles, knitting

needles, knitting

Packet containing pair of knitting needles

Chopsticks

Pulleys their uses, types, operation and historic use.

What is a simple machine?

A definition of a simple machine.

Marvellous machines: early robots

Robots that date back over 500 years.

Ancient tools from the Early Stone Age to the Later Stone Age.

Why we need wheels and how they work.

What’s in your tool belt?

The thought process behind what goes into a tool belt.

Simple machines

How are simple machines used?

Basic types of simple machines

Simple machines for applying force and doing work.

Inclined planes

Inclined planes – explanation and examples.

Nature's tools and how birds use them.

Archimedes and the mighty mathematics of the lever.

Learn the names of hand held tools.

Making work easier

Six simple machines to make work easier.

History of technology

A history of tools and technology.

Medieval rope-making in Visby market.

Flintknapping a spearhead from a rock.

Making stone tools

Nicholas Toth shows how early humans made stone tools that were simple but effective.

Making a whao, a Maori woodcarving chisel with a jade blade.

Making a simple tool

A simple tool to make rope from plastic bottles.

Tools and simple machines

Tools made from metal, wood, and plastic work like extensions of your body.

Animals and tools

The truth about animals and tools.

A reality series where a 21st-century family lives for 10 weeks as their forbears did in 1900.

Māori tattoos: history, practice, and meanings

How the tools and process of tā moko have changed.

[Robley, Horatio Gordon] 1840-1930 :Patu tuna ; eel striker / [H. G. Robley] [1860s or later]

Patu means ‘hit’ in Māori and is a general term used for a club. This elaborately carved patu tuna was used to kill eels. A patu could be made of wood, stone or bone. There were two types of patu t...

George Ebbett Collection, Maori Greenstone tattooing tools, Hawke's Bay District

Maori pounamu tattooing tools

Pounamu meaning ‘greenstone’ is the Māori name for jade. It is only found in some South Island West Coast rivers. Because of its hardness many important Māori tools were made from pounamu and it fe...

A 63 Lever interlocking frame for Invercargill railway signal station, in the Petone Railway Workshops

Lever interlocking frame

There are 65 levers in this interlocking frame at the Invercargill Railway signal station. A lever is a simple machine which consists of a plank or beam that is free to rotate or move from or on a...

Grinding wheels

Grinding wheels

Wheels are everywhere and an essential part of our modern technology, but this simple wheel-like machine has been used since ancient times. The first wheels could have been rollers made from tree ...

Tool kit

This tool kit can be found in anyone’s garage or home. It’s a handy box to have around the house to repair or maintain small jobs or for a do-it-yourself project. A tool kit or toolbox is used to ...

Page 4 Advertisements Column 8 (Taranaki Daily News 14-9-1905)

The first part of this newspaper article from 1905 is an advertisement for garden tools. Shown here are a shovel and fork with a list of garden tools manufactured by ironmongers W.W Murton & Compan...

NEW METAL FOR TOOLS. (Mataura Ensign 18-2-1911)

New metal for tools

Metals have played an important part in the manufacture of tools. The Iron Age began around 1200 BC when iron was used to make tools and weapons. The only real problem with iron is that it can rust...

Obsidian

This is an obsidian-flow outcrop in Oira Bay, Mayor Island. Obsidian is a natural glass, formed by the rapid cooling of silica-rich volcanic lava. It was prized for its use in cutting and scraping....

Adze

This toki pounamu (adze) is believed to be at least five centuries old, and it would have been owned by an important chief. Europeans arriving in the 19th century encountered trading of pounamu thr...

Pump Drill

Drill - hand-powered

Drill - hand-powered

The kō was a digging implement used to loosen soil, which sometimes had a teka (foot tread) attached. It is sometimes incorrectly called a spade.

Beaney & Sons Ltd :Derrick crane; derrick cranes [ca 1911].

Beaney & Sons Ltd :Derrick crane; derrick cranes [ca 1911].

Page 12 at left shows a derrick crane "for handling goods in yards, or wharves or on jetties. The right hand page shows another view of a derrick crane and detail of the pulley machinery and cogwh...

He Tohunga Whakairo

He Tohunga Whakairo

This 2002 documentary profile of the late Ngāti Porou master carver and 2013 Arts Foundation Icon award winner Pakariki Harrison won that year’s Best Māori Language Programme at the TV Guide NZ Tel...

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