Screws

Screws!

Theres many ways to use screws in cabinetmaking, You could use it on furniture to hold the pieces together rather than using a different joinery technique. You can use them to hold up wall mounted cabinets. Used for installing hardware. Used to making jigs and fixtures. And more.

Historians do not know who invented the screw. Although it seems to have been invented only in the last few thousand years. The first known use of a screw was as part of the screw pump of Sennacherib, King of Assyria, for the water systems at the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and Nineveh in the 7th century BC.

Around 250 BC, the Greek inventor Archimedes made a screw pump. Archimedes' machine had a revolving screw-shaped blade inside a cylinder. The blade was turned by hand. This type of machine is called the Archimedes screw. It is still used today for pumping liquids and other materials like coal and grain. By the 1st century BC, wooden screws were commonly used throughout the Mediterranean world in devices such as oil and wine presses.

The metal screw did not become a common fastener until machines for mass production were developed at the end of the 18th century, because nails, which are straight, are much easier to make than screws. In the 1770s, English instrument maker Jesse Ramsden invented a machine that made metal screws. Handheld screwdrivers first appeared around 1800. These developments caused a great increase in the use of threaded fasteners.

Throughout the 19th century, the most common types of screw heads were round with simple slots that were turned using screwdrivers and square and hexagonal heads that were turned with wrenches. In the early 1930s, the Phillips-head screw was invented by Henry F. Phillips. This screw has a cross-shaped recess in the head for the driver tool.

To use screws you will need a drill or screw driver and a variety of different bits.

I notice screws everywhere in furniture.