Talk:Snap-on
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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Snapon.jpg
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[edit] Worth?
What do you mean the company is worth $2.4B? Is that net assets or what? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.72.53.124 (talk) 10:26, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Misleading?
From this article:
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- "Pioneering the idea of interchangeable sockets and wrench handles, Joseph Johnson and William Seidemann formed the Snap-on Wrench Company in 1920. The company manufactured and marketed ten sockets that would "snap on" to five interchangeable handles, a concept that created the modern socket wrench and revolutionized the tool industry."
However, from the article on the socket wrench (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_wrench), we have:
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- "The modern socket wrench, with interchangeable sockets, was invented by an American J.J. Richardson, of Woodstock, Vt. The tool was patented through the Scientific American Patent Agency on the 18th of June, 1863. The first illustration of the tool appears on pg. 248 of the April 16, 1864 issue of Scientific American. Previously, sockets were attached to the handle, so different-sized nuts required different wrenches."
The interchangeable socket wrench was invented or patented in 1863, nearly 60 years before the Snap-on Wrench Company was formed.
The paragraph above as part of the Snap-on article is extremely misleading, suggesting that the Snap-on Wrench Company created the modern socket wrench and revolutionized the tool industry, when it did no such thing.
Perhaps an edit is in order?
209.237.75.130 (talk) 22:18, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
