This fun and funny celebration of hardware from Vince Staten answers the burning questions like have plagued humankind from time immemorial.

Staten reveals the mysterious origins of all the things that hold your house together and all the tools you’ve ever dreamed of having.

Drawing on his years behind the counter of his father’s hardware store, Did Monkeys Invent the Monkey Wrench? reminds readers that there was once a place where like-minded souls could discuss the important things in life, like baseball, bad movies, and box-end wrenches.