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30 Interesting Tools That Only People In Very Specific Fields Get To See (New Pics)
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30 Interesting Tools That Only People In Very Specific Fields Get To See (New Pics)

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A Stainless Steel Pallet Jack For Use Inside Clean Rooms

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The Cyanometer. A 230 Year Old Tool Used To Measure The Blueness Of The Sky.

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Contraption Used In Churches To Fill Up Multiple Communion Cups At Once.

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This Is A Steno Machine, Used For Recording Words Verbatim At Speeds Over 225 Words Per Minute. Used In Court Rooms And Legal Depositions.

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The Spider, An Aerial Lift For Getting Into Tight Spots

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This Thing To Clean A Kitchen Hand Whisk

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Network Cable Comber

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A Whole Set Of Non-Sparking Beryllium Copper Wrenches For Working With Hydrogen. Anyone Want To Guess The Cost?

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Non-Metallic Pliers For Pulling Fuses

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Not Fisher Price, But Insulated Ratchet And Plastic Drivers For Working On Evs

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Remote-Controlled Special Excavator To Demolish Cooling Towers Of Nuclear Power Plants

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The Costco Food Court Table Dolly

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These Special Tweezers Are Used For Removing Nose Pads From Eyeglasses

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For When You Get Off The Water Rides

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A Tool For Testing Smoke Alarms. It Covers The Unit Snugly Then Releases A Puff Of Smoke, From There A Bloke On The Control Panel Can Tell Whether It Is Working Properly Or Not.

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Space Mouse – A Mouse For 3D Model Navigation

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Huge Bottoming Drill-Tap We Made Today

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Temporary Traffic Light

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Saw This Escalator Hoist And Immediately Thought Of This Sub

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Ruler My Allergist Used For Measuring Welts On My Arm After An Allergy Test

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This Elevator That My Installation Crew Is Using To Hoist Photovoltaic Panels Up To The Second Story Rooftop

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Non Sparking Pipe Wrenches. And Channel Locks Just In Case. About $1600.00 In This Picture

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Penetrating Firetruck

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Met a truffle hunter in the Peloponnese mts. and got a chance to snap a pic of his truffle shovels! The flat one is for white truffles which tent to grow in softer soil, and the more spear shaped is for black truffles which are found deeper and in more rocky soil

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This Truck For Servicing Street Lamps

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Howitzer, 105mm artillery gun, used by ski patrol to clear avalanche hazards

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Star apple parer and slicer, 1871. One of three known to exist

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Pickle lifter. It came inside the jar

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You’ve seen a soldering iron, but what about a reloadable soldering gun?

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This training device to help football players aim their kicks

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HD Post Driver with Country Upgrade

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I’ll raise your 30 year old cheese slicer for this 30 year old hard boiled egg slicer

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1926 Fordson Snowmotor

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Hip clamp: A tool to help a cow stand up

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Tool used by Georgian bakers to remove bread from the oven

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Time-release fin clip cam for sharks

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Mosaic glass cutter press

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Large wave flume at a wave research lab

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A ballnut

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Cleaning the solar panels

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Yarn winder in action

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Paper Crumpler for padding boxes to ship

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Olives harvester

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Traditional olive oil extraction

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Machine for removing tree stumps

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A shoe testing machine from the 1940s

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Automatic acoustic measurement tapping machine

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This snowman maker

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An optical inspection train

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A nail making machine in action!

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Beach cleaning robot designed to pick up small pieces of garbage hidden beneath the sand!

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Electric shunting buggy we use in our manufacturing plant 36V

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Shaping a helical gear

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UV Microphone Sterilizer

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Bung wrench – if you have a really tight bung hole I suggest investing in this wrench

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Pokey-picker-upper tool invented by a highway maintenance worker to pick up metal shards along shoulders

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Hollowing out a clogg

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A Rug Sewing Machine

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Laser Railway Rail Profile Scanner – Absolute Single Purpose Machine

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This farming robot zaps weeds with precision lasers

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Book cleaning tool

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Road Bollard Cleaner

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Powered onion dicer

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30 year old cheese slicer

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Old poppy seed grinder that my mom uses when baking poppy seed rolls

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The Picker, you drive over the balls on the range and it picks them up

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Automatic pizza cutter

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Poppy seed mill

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Manual dough divider

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NASA Glenn Research center reinvented the wheel using shape memory alloy tires

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Steel Wire Seperator

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Storytelling, journalism, and art are a core part of who I am. I've been writing and drawing ever since I could walk—there is nothing else I'd rather do. My formal education, however, is focused on politics, philosophy, and economics because I've always been curious about the gap between the ideal and the real. At work, I'm a Senior Writer and I cover a broad range of topics that I'm passionate about: from psychology and changes in work culture to healthy living, relationships, and design. In my spare time, I'm an avid hiker and reader, enjoy writing short stories, and love to doodle. I thrive when I'm outdoors, going on small adventures in nature. However, you can also find me enjoying a big mug of coffee with a good book (or ten) and entertaining friends with fantasy tabletop games and sci-fi movies.

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Jonas Grinevičius

Jonas Grinevičius

Writer, BoredPanda staff

Storytelling, journalism, and art are a core part of who I am. I've been writing and drawing ever since I could walk—there is nothing else I'd rather do. My formal education, however, is focused on politics, philosophy, and economics because I've always been curious about the gap between the ideal and the real. At work, I'm a Senior Writer and I cover a broad range of topics that I'm passionate about: from psychology and changes in work culture to healthy living, relationships, and design. In my spare time, I'm an avid hiker and reader, enjoy writing short stories, and love to doodle. I thrive when I'm outdoors, going on small adventures in nature. However, you can also find me enjoying a big mug of coffee with a good book (or ten) and entertaining friends with fantasy tabletop games and sci-fi movies.

Indrė Lukošiūtė

Indrė Lukošiūtė

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I am a Visual editor at Bored Panda, I'm determined to find the most interesting and the best quality images for each post that I do. On my free time I like to unwind by doing some yoga, watching all kinds of movies/tv shows, playing video and board games or just simply hanging out with my cat

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Indrė Lukošiūtė

Indrė Lukošiūtė

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I am a Visual editor at Bored Panda, I'm determined to find the most interesting and the best quality images for each post that I do. On my free time I like to unwind by doing some yoga, watching all kinds of movies/tv shows, playing video and board games or just simply hanging out with my cat

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ADHD McChick
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stannous, we had to take my son to an endocrinologist when he was young, because he was quite small for his age. He still is, but it's just because his dad and I are short, too, lol. Anyway, the doctor had one of those, that she used in the course of his exam. After she was finished, while we were talking, my young son picked it up, started playing with it, and then slipped it onto his wrist like a bracelet! I think ALL us adults were trying not to bust out laughing, that day.

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M O'Connell
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've used specialty titanium wrenches and screwdrivers to install drivers into speaker cabinets. Steel tools would be an incredible pain.

2WheelTravlr
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those rare-earth magnets in speakers are some strong stuff! Stainless tools would work also, as it's usually non-magnetic.

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Ahimsa Soul
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

@Auntriarch! You made laugh out loud! Thanks O needed that today. New phone writes whatever it wants. Merry Xmas!

Seabeast
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love clever devices. There used to be a shop called House Of Tools in my previous city and I'd wander in just to admire the ingenuity.

ADHD McChick
Community Member
1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stannous, we had to take my son to an endocrinologist when he was young, because he was quite small for his age. He still is, but it's just because his dad and I are short, too, lol. Anyway, the doctor had one of those, that she used in the course of his exam. After she was finished, while we were talking, my young son picked it up, started playing with it, and then slipped it onto his wrist like a bracelet! I think ALL us adults were trying not to bust out laughing, that day.

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M O'Connell
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've used specialty titanium wrenches and screwdrivers to install drivers into speaker cabinets. Steel tools would be an incredible pain.

2WheelTravlr
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those rare-earth magnets in speakers are some strong stuff! Stainless tools would work also, as it's usually non-magnetic.

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Ahimsa Soul
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

@Auntriarch! You made laugh out loud! Thanks O needed that today. New phone writes whatever it wants. Merry Xmas!

Seabeast
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love clever devices. There used to be a shop called House Of Tools in my previous city and I'd wander in just to admire the ingenuity.

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