Xcelite Tools Company History & Lore

Xcelite was the first company to make a plastic handle screwdriver, and also the first to coin the term "nut driver". Their color coded nut drivers were frequently used by electronics technicians and hobbiests from the 1940's all the way to today. An Xcelite screwdriver is believed to have been used by Louis Slotin in the 1946 "Demon Core" incident, at the Los Alamos testing lab. In this video we go over the histroy of Xcelite. From Park Metalware in the 1920's to "Xcelite by Weller" and present day. Check out the full Tool Lore playlist here:    • Tool Lore   Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @ballinator   Demon Core Incident: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals... Park Metalware patents: https://patents.google.com/?assignee=... https://patents.google.com/?inventor=... 1924 Wire Connector: https://www.google.com/books/edition/... 1936 Catalog (screwdrivers): https://archive.org/details/park-meta... 1960 Catalog: https://archive.org/details/XceliteCa... 1966 Catalog: https://archive.org/details/bitsavers... 1982 Catalog: https://archive.org/details/XceliteCo... Los Alamos cover: https://archive.org/details/los-alamo... Chapters: 00:00 Demon Core Incident 00:54 Park Metalware 01:44 The Nut Driver 02:22 Xcelite Innovations 03:40 The Cooper Era 04:02 The Apex Era 05:07 Outro 05:38 Moar Demon Core