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The screw-hammer was mentioned in the book Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome. The comment was a humorous jab at a certain kind of person who thinks he's a talented mechanic, while in reality he is completely clueless when it comes to anything remotely mechanical.

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I'm not sure this answer is correct. The screw-hammer is also mentioned by a writer of around the same time H.G. Wells, also in connection to bicycles.

http://www.bikereader.com/contributors/misc/wells.html

The screw-hammer may just be an archaic name for a screwdriver or it may have been a specific Victorian era bicycle tool.

Something described as a screw-hammer appeared in the British 1950s comedy "Isn't Life Wonderful" set in 1908.It looked like a T headed wrench which you tightened by turning a ring on the handle. It was used it to cut the metal straps on a bicycle crate (to show off someone else's mechanical incompetence).

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