Lu Ban can be said to be Newton in the history of woodworking in China. Dozens of woodworking tools were invented or improved by him. With Mo Dou, carpenters can easily saw straight boards; With the ruler, the curved wood, which was not easy to measure, has a measuring method. He felt that the surface of the board was too rough, no matter how many times he cut it with an axe, it didn't help, so he ground a small and thin axe, covered it with a piece of iron, exposing only a narrow blade, and pushed it back and forth on the board with this special axe. The surface of the board becomes flat and smooth, which is much better than cutting it with an axe in the past. The plane was born. At the beginning, Lu Ban asked his wife to help him resist the board, and later he invented the bayonet, so people also called it his wife.
Lu Ban also invented many war tools, such as ladders and hooks. But later, because I lost to Mozi, I stopped making these things, but devoted myself to serving the people and making tools for life. It is also recorded in unofficial history that Lu Ban can make a wooden magpie fly in the sky for three days. Now it seems that it may be a kite or something.
But many people think that what Lu Ban invented was not actually invented by Lu Ban. Saw, the most famous invention of Lu Ban, actually took shape as early as Shang Dynasty. Therefore, the saw invented by Lu Ban according to thatch is only a fabrication of later generations, and at most it is an improvement. In addition, the toy we have always called Luban Lock actually originated in Europe and has nothing to do with Luban. ...