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The history of early and modern screws - Phillips Head - Robertson - square drive screws - screwdrivers. ... In the early 1930s, the Phillips head screw was invented by Henry Phillips. Automobile manufacturers now used car assembly lines. They needed screws that could take greater torque and could provide tighter fastenings.
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He inventing the Archimedes screw - a screw-shaped machine or hydraulic screw that raised water from a lower to a higher level. Archimedes also invented the catupult, the lever, the compound pulley, and the burning mirror (a system of mirrors that burned the boots and ships of invading armies by focusing the sun's rays).
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The question has two answers, 1.Archimedes of Syracuse invented the water screw and 2.Sir Joseph Whitworth invented the first standard screw thread system. detail below
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Archimedes' screw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Archimedes' screw , the Archimedes screw , the Archimedean screw or the screwpump is a machine historically used for transferring water from a low-lying body of water into irrigation ditches. I...
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. . . and what is the most surprising thing of all, they [Roman slaves] draw out the water of the streams they encounter [in Spanish mines] by means of what is called by men the Egyptian screw, which was invented by Archimedes of Syracuse at the time of his visit to Egypt;
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Puma have reignited a long standing argument with Adidas. Puma and Adidas both claim to be the first company to manufacture and market screw in studs for football boots. ... I believe it was the dutch shoebrand QUICK who invented the first screw in stud..
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It is considered by some that the screw thread was invented in about 400BC by Archytas of Tarentum (428 BC - 350 BC). Archytas is sometimes called the founder of mechanics and was a contemporary of Plato.
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www.boltscience.com/pages/screw2.htm
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He was flabbergasted by how archaic screw design was. On rare occasions when a new screw length or width was needed, an engineer would consult a 300-page manual dating from 1936 that explains the relationships between certain heights and pitches of threads and the lengths and widths of the resulting screws.
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www.boingboing.net/2005/09/16/better-screw-invente.html
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Who invented the screw propeller - they all did! ... Gatling, later Dr Gatling, and known for the invention of the Gatling Gun, had, by the age of 21, in 1839, in North Carolina, invented the screw propeller for steamboats, only to discover it had just been independently patented by Smith & Ericsson.
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