A Celebration of Utter Utility: The Robertson Screwdriver

http://www.esquire.com/features/man-at-his-best/robertson-screwdriver-0308


Canadians: 1
Americans: zip.


In a recent ranking of great Canadian inventions, the Robertson ranked seventh, ahead of the zipper and the retractable beer-carton handle, just one spot behind the pacemaker. But the Robertson is the real lifesaver, rescuing us from both flatheads and Henry M. Phillips’s vastly inferior product. That sham artist actually had the nerve to suggest that his screwdrivers were designed to slip, to prevent “over-tightening.” Up here, there’s no such word.