A tool is but the extension of a mans hand and a machine is but a complex tool and he that invents a machine augments the power of man and the well-being of mankind. (Henry Ward Beecher)

A tool is but the extension of a mans hand and a machine is but a complex tool and he that invents a machine augments the power of man and the well-being of mankind.

Henry Ward Beecher

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