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the simplest machine, secretly the reason you have shoes, splits firewood, and ate Australia's prime minister
means A triangular tool or shape, thicker at one end and tapering to a thin edge, used to split, lift, secure, or hold things apart.
from From Old English 'wecg,' a chunk or lump of metal, sharing roots with Old Norse 'veggr' and other Germanic words for a wedge-shaped mass. The word has stayed remarkably steady for over a thousand years, which makes sense for the oldest and least improvable of the six classical simple machines — you can't really redesign a triangle.
ancient toolOne of six classical simple machines
force multiplierConverts a push into a sideways split
every bladeKnives, axes, teeth are all wedges
golf weaponWedges are clubs built for short approaches
deadly saladThe wedge salad is just lettuce, defiantly uncut