1 This is suitable for pounding in nails; the claw part is suitable for pulling nails out. This hammer is more commonly used for woodworking and has a âTâ shape, with the head on one side and a âclawâ on the other side. It is in the house. See image above.  Ball peen hammer (hardened).
The plaque reads: At this site in Dec. 1913, Gulf Refining Co. opened the first drive-in facility designed and built to provide gasoline, oils, and lubricants to the motoring public.. Site of First Gas Station. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A historical marker stands at the street corner where the world's first drive-in gas station opened in December 1913. Until then, drivers got their gas at general stores, hardware shops, even soon-to-be-obsolete blacksmiths. Photos of the first-of-its-kind facility show a small central island covered by a large roof that extended over surrounding driveways -- a convenient pull-it-in-and-gas-it-up design familiar even today.
Throughout the 19th century and into the first decades of the 20th, the gas was manufactured by the gasification of coal. In the latter years of the nineteenth century, natural gas began to replace coal-gas, first in the US, and then in other parts of the world.altimore was the first American city with gas streetlights, provided by Peale's Gas Light Company of Baltimore. The first private residence in the US illuminated by gas was that of William Henry, a coppersmith, at 200 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.