Watching an episode of Jeopardy with college student contestants, 2 male Kentucky and Naval Academy, 1 female Georgetown. Alex showed them a picture of a Crescent wrench and asked them what kind of wrench it was, with the moon being mentioned in his answer/clue. All 3 were baffled. How can anyone reach their twenties in America and somehow not know what a Crescent wrench is called?
I suppose I am the only one here that know this bit of trivia. But here it is anyway; Before the Crescent Wrench There was and adjustable wrench It was called, The Monkey wrench .
Jeopardy is fake. Fake questions asked to fake contestants for a show that is designed to make their core audience, old people, still feel smart.
Why should schools teach kids about wrenches? Kids should learn about wrenches the way I had to, on the street. barfo
A category called “Not A Successful Rap Musician,” which listed three names of supposed rap musicians in each clue and had contestants try to guess which one was fake.
The Japanese call all wrenches "monkey" as do the elder Taiwanese....sort of like they both call beer...beeroo
Crescent was a brand. It would be like calling a Google Pixel an iPhone. I think crescent may have been the first one sold....not sure.
Adjustable spanner An adjustable spanner (UK, and most other English-speaking countries), adjustable wrench (US and Canada) or a shifter (Australia) is an open-end wrench with a movable jaw, allowing it to be used with different sizes of fastener head (nut, bolt, etc.) rather than just one fastener size, as with a conventional fixed spanner.[1] Several other names are in use, including the US trademark crescent wrench.[2][3] Forms and names[edit] English engineer Richard Clyburn is credited with inventing an adjustable spanner in 1842.[4] Another English engineer, Edwin Beard Budding, is also credited with the invention.[5][6] Improvements followed: on 22 September 1885 Enoch Harris received US patent 326868[7] for his spanner that permitted both the jaw width and the angle of the handles to be adjusted and locked. Swedish company Bahco attributes an improved design, in 1891 or 1892, to Swedish inventor Johan Petter Johansson.[8][9] who in 1892 received a patent[10] Johansson's spanner was a further development of Clyburn's original "screw spanner".[citation needed] In Canada and the United States, the tool is known as a Crescent wrench or an adjustable wrench.[2][3] There are many forms of adjustable spanners, from the taper locking spanners which needed a hammer to set the movable jaw to the size of the nut, to the modern screw adjusted spanner. Some adjustable spanners automatically adjust to the size of the nut. Simpler models use a serrated edge to lock the movable jaw to size, while more sophisticated versions are digital types that use sheets or feelers to set the size. The fixed jaw can withstand bending stress far better than can the movable jaw, because the latter is supported only by the flat surfaces on either side of the guide slot, not the full thickness of the tool. The tool is therefore usually angled so that the movable jaw's area of contact is closer to the body of the tool, which means less bending stress. Monkey wrenches are another type of adjustable spanner with a long history; the origin of the name is unclear.[11] The type of straight adjustable spanner with jaws at right angles to the handle shown here as an "English Key"[not in citation given] is mainly called a "King Dick"[not in citation given] spanner in the United Kingdom because of a popular British brand of small, handy and reliable adjustable spanner used throughout the 1900s and used in great numbers during World War II.[12] A popular type of adjustable spanner has a base and jaws that form four (4) sides of a hexagon, and is therefore particularly suited for hexagonal nuts ("hex nuts") and hexagonal headed ("hex head") cap screws and bolts. In the United States and Canada, the adjustable spanner (adjustable wrench) is colloquially referred to as a "crescent wrench" due to the widespread Crescent brand of adjustable wrenches. The Crescent brand of hand tools is owned and marketed by Apex Tool Group, LLC. In some parts of Europe, adjustable spanners are often called a Bahco.[9] This term refers to the company of the Swedish inventor Johan Petter Johansson, which was originally called B.A. (Bernt August) Hjort & Company. The Swedes themselves call the key "skiftnyckel" which is translated into adjustable key (shifting key).[citation needed] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjustable_spanner
