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- Source of title proper: Title supplied by University of Waterloo, Graphic Services staff.
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8 photographs : b&w negatives ; 35 mm
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Images of Engineering Society banner featuring the Ridgid Tool hanging down the side of Dana Porter Library.
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2 of 8 negatives scanned as TIF files May 2024.
Added to the Waterloo Digital Library.
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Public Domain.
Preferred citation: University of Waterloo Archives. Graphic Services fonds.
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The Ridgid Tool is a 60-inch chrome plated pipe wrench and is the mascot of the University of Waterloo Engineering Society. The wrench was made by the Ridge Tool Company in 1968 and donated by the company to the University of Waterloo in the same year. The Ridgid tool was renamed “The Tool” in 1990 because there were growing concerns that the word Ridgid had sexual connotations that promoted sexism in engineering culture.
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74-11-11_002 appeared on Page 7 of the Wednesday, November 13, 1974 edition of the Gazette. No caption ran with the photo.
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- Dana Porter Library (Subject)