I thought that this was very interesting. I looked up the origin of tweezers and found out that they originated in the mid-17th century. In an earlier blog, Tweezers of the 664 BC, I posted a picture of what they looked like before they were called tweezers.
Tweezers is an extended form of obsolete tweeze ‘case of surgical instruments,’ shortening of etweese, plural of etui.
It is interesting to see just how far we have come of the many centuries!