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No one really knows when the shovel was invented nor whom it was invented by. There are archeological findings of animal scapulas (shoulder blades) that were used as crude shovels that date around Neolithic times or the New Stone Age, which is around 12,000 years ago.

It wasn't until the 1890's to the 1910's that Fredrick Windslow Taylor expanded on the existing idea of making different varieties of shovels based on the density and texture of the material being shoveled. But Taylor and his colleagues were not the ones that invented the shovel. Whoever did lived thousands of years ago and will forever remain unnamed.

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