Threaded fasteners like bolts and nuts are very common and widely used in our daily life. They have become indispensable due to their convenience&cost-effectiveness. But do you know the history of bolts&screws and how threaded fasteners come to our life? It originate from at least 200 B.C actually. Ancient Greece scientist Archimedes was the first to be recorded to use thread things. He used a huge spiral article loaded in a wood bucket to move water from one water level to another water level so as to irrigate the fields. Still, he was not the inventor for threads or spiral things, it maybe earlier that ancient Greece talented people invented them for irrigation purpose.
When it comes to middle Century, carpenters began to adopt wood nails and metal nails for the connection of furniture parts and building materials. In 16th century, workers begin to produce nails with helix lines, this kind of nail can connect thing more firmly and more tightly. This is just a small steps from nails to screws.

Around 1550, metal nuts and bolts were first recorded to be used as fasteners. They were made by simple wooden lathe with hand making.

Screw drivers were first applied in 1780 in London. Carpenters found it has better fasten effect by screwdrivers than by hammer hitting, especially when the screws were fine thread.

In 1797, Henry Maudsley invented full metal made high precision screw making lathe. In the next year, Wilkinson invented a kind of bolts&nuts making machine in the U.S. Screws becoming popular and widely come to our lives since then as they could be largely produced with low cost.

In 1936, Henry Phillips applied for patent for phillips screws. The screwdrivers can slides to the center easily and not easy to slip when using with Phillips design, thus widely welcomed by people. Universal bolts and nuts can easily connect different metal parts together, till 19th century, metal parts were becoming more popular in construction than wood materials due to the popularization of metal fasteners.

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