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How Screws Conquered the World
Screws, bolts, nuts, and washers hold the built world together — but the standardized, off-the-shelf fastener is far newer than most people assume. This episode traces the screw's strange double life: two millennia as a machine for pressing olives and pumping water before it ever clamped two things together, and the nineteenth-century system of thread standards, mass production, and interchangeable parts that finally put a box of screws on a shelf. Along the way: why a nail was once valuable enough to justify arson, why the screwdriver only made sense after standardization, and why nobody…
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