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[mamadeb]

How strange am I?

My husband gave me more presents today. (He's getting steak for dinner as an extra present tonight.) One is the natural history of the screw and screwdriver.

I jumped up and down when I found it.

My goodness, doesn't it sound absolutely fascinating? Just - it's one of the few entirely modern unpowered tools we have and just to see how it developed (my theory - the ability to make threads came first, and then the screw and then finally the screwdriver. Either that or it evolved from the drill. Either way, it should be fun to find out) is cool.

Right?

Or am I strange?

Comments

[ratcreature]

But I thought the screw existed since ancient times, like since Ancient Greece or something like that, but it was just too much effort to produce them in pre-industrialized times, so all through the middle ages and later there just weren't many of them but they existed?

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

See, this is my guess.

But the screwdriver apparently was invented in the 19th C.

[ratcreature]

I guess when you just have few screws, and probably not that many small ones, screwdrivers just aren't necessary. But I agree that the history of the screw is interesting. Then again I like history of sciences and technology in general.