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Who invented the thread?

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Coloken

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Got to wondering who and when the thread was invented, used. Like a bolt or like holding a wheel on an axle. Much better than a hole and a peg. Does it show up in old Egypt?
 
Didn't Archimedes identify some of the simple machines around the 2nd or 3rd century B.C.? Have to assume they were already in use before then?
 
Probably if not by them, then atleast than far back. Arcimeses? A greek guy anyway, came up with the screw that is used in grain ops today, lifting everything from rocks to water. Wine presses were using wooden screw tech in very early Rome,... hey this is sounding like a new plot for the History Channel... they need some new plots...
 
studied it in grade school a hundred years ago,archmedies(s) I think.the fellow who used the inclined plane to lift water.isnt that called the archamedies screw?its been many a year, but i think he was greek. do a net search on inclined plane and you probably could find it.
 
I would go so far as to say the it is an inclined plane wrapped around a cylinder (wheel), combination of two simple machines.

~Kirk
 
It was Tom Edison's twin brother, Sam- Samuel Alva Edison, to be exact. The name of the invention was shortened to SAE. One Nathan Finortner later infringed on his patent by changing it slightly, with less pitch on the threads, giving rise to NF bolts.

Who said you couldn't learn anything on this board?
 
I recall reading that the screw was invented by ancient Egyptions and was used to elevate water for irrigation - and is still being used today in Egypt for the same purpose.
 
Archimedes is credited with inventing the "Archimedian Screw," an augur type device for pumping water mostly for irrigation purposes but there is some controversy as to wheether it may have been in use prior to his time.

Dean
 
Here's Mr Fine. Don't know who this Mr Coarse would be.

Always thought Larry was the most underrated of the Stooges.
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I would have to expand on your comment.
There are many types of threads, Standard Unified, Acme, Whitworth, Ball screws, Then there are a couple of others with different angles on the thread profile. I will say that as machine tools advanced in the late 19th century the quality of the threads improved greatly.
As far as a wagon wheel being held on the axle with a nut and screw of somekind, who knows.
 
i bought a book at Barnes and Noble from the discounted table. I cannot find it and the title is ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER. more informationthan anybody wants to know about fasteners. I am not grieving it being lost around here.
 
The first male pig seems to have had a need for threads.

I guess he thought it was better than the "hole and peg" version that humans use.
 
I was reading the post's, and cracking up at the response's, and my wife wanted to read them. She came to the conclusion, that you guys have too much time on your hands! HER WORDS, not mine!
 
Don't know who or when it was invented but I am amazed that you can unbolt something made in the 1920's or older and turn on a new nut or turn a new bolt in that was made this year and the threads will still match up.
 
What amazes me is the machining that was done in the mid to late 1800's. Can you imagine what kind of lathes and mill type machines they must have had then to build something like a steam engine? And in a "what came first the chicken or the egg" style question...How can you bulid a lathe when you need a lathe to build it? Where'd they get the first machine to do the machining on the machine they were building?
As to threads, my dads friend was indentured as a boy in Hungary as a locksmith apprentice. In 1930's. He emmigrated to US then as a teen. The ship they were on broke down with a steam issue. He was recruited to cut a thread free hand on a pipe using a diamond shaped point-chisel.
 
And now a limerick, on the subject:

There once was a man named deadeye dick
who was born with the misfortune of a corkscrew _____
all his life was a fruitless hunt
in search of a girl with a corkscrew ____
but when he found it, he dropped dead
cause the %)#-#!&^## thing had a left hand thread!
 
It's funny you mentioned that, there was a big well know shop in Springfield Mass called 'Van Norman'.
They started in the pocket watch parts- mirco precision machine? business, and ended up making huge specialized equipment for other tool companies, Bridgeport, Brown and Sharpe etc.
It was known as 'the machine makers who make the machines for the people who make machines'...
like everything else around here, gone by the late 70's or early 80's....
 
Way back. Earliest were unique to each maker. Pitch thread groove angle and major/minor diameters were all unique to a tap and die, or tool maker. I still have university students make threads on a lathe that must fit a standard nut. Jim
Info
 
Just got a catalog from Lindsay Technical books.He is quitting feb 2013.Last chance to get books on early machinery.Im trying to figure out how to afford the books I want before hes closing.I sold his books for many years.
 
wow - the end of an era -

thanks for letting us know, I'll have to hurry up and order some stuff too!

I always go through the catalog but get overwhelmed - I want this - and that - and those - and these -

that I just never end up ordering ANYTHING!
 
God really invented it, since he made the pig!

Google pig private part, the potty filter won't let me post the link.

It is an inclined plane, that wraps around a cylinder. It threads itself into the cervix. That's why they call it screwing.
 
Checked my inventory of Lindsay books.Picked out some Ill keep.I have some that Lindsay had been of for a long time.Putting things off never pays.
 
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