Portable hand-held electric drill (Fein)
Taladro eléctrico portátil de mano (Fein)
- Date
- 1895 · confidence medium
- Place
- Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Credited to
- Wilhelm Emil Fein
- Field
- Tools
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
A drill with an electric motor in the body and handle that an operator could carry from one workpiece to another without relying on a fixed machine. Wilhelm Fein presented it in 1895 in Stuttgart.
Arnot and Wilhelm Fein were nearly simultaneous: Arnot introduced the electric drill in 1889 in Melbourne and Fein the portable hand-held drill in 1895 in Stuttgart; there is no agreement about which was truly the first portable one.
What it led to
- on-site drilling in shipyards, assembly and building
- portable electric hand tools
- the pistol-grip drills of Black & Decker