User:Nfrinier/Screw-cutting lathe

The screw has been known for thousands of years. Archimedes described the water screw, a system for raising water. Screws as mechanical fasteners date to the first century BC. Although screws were tremendously useful, the difficulty in making them prevented any widespread adoption.The designers of screw- cutting lathes aimed to solve this problem with their machines in such a manner that would enable the production screws cheaply, efficiently. It would be these qualities of screw production that enabled the utilization of screws in an industrializing world.