Everything you have to know about springs and its history

First, we need to understand what a spring is. A spring is a mechanical part that USES elasticity to work. Parts made of elastic materials deform under the action of external forces, and recover to their original state after removing external forces. Also called "spring".
A spring is a mechanical part that USES elasticity to work. Parts made of elastic materials deform under the action of external forces, and recover to their original state after removing external forces. Also called "spring". It is usually made of spring steel. Spring types are complex and diverse, according to the shape, the main spiral spring, coil spring, plate spring, shaped spring, etc.

Spring history
Like most other basic mechanisms, metal springs have long existed during the Bronze Age. Even metal, wood was used as a structural component for a flexible bow and arrow and a military catapult. In the Renaissance, the precision of clocks and watches made the precision of springs inevitable for the first time. The fourteenth century saw the development of the revolutionary astronomical navigation of the precise clock. The world's exploration and conquest of European colonial powers continued to provide the impetus for the clockmaker's "science and art." Another area of firearms, the push spring development.
The advent of the industrial revolution in the eighteenth century brought forth the need for large, accurate, and inexpensive springs. Since clockmaker 'springs are often manufactured by hand, they are mass-produced from qin steel wire or similar materials. Advanced manufacturing methods make today's springs ubiquitous. The computer control line and plate bending machine allow custom spring processing, which is obviously a dedicated machine.
Spring is just a accumulator, it has the function of storing energy, but can not slowly release the energy, to achieve the slow release of this function should rely on the "spring + large transmission ratio mechanism" to achieve, often seen in mechanical watches. Springs have been in use for a long, long time. The ancient bows and crossbows were two kinds of springs in the broad sense. The inventor of the spring technically should have been Robert thooke, although by then the helical compression spring had appeared and was widely used.
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Hooke put forward "hooke's law" -- the elongation of a spring is proportional to the force it is subjected to. According to this principle, the spring balance with screw compression spring was invented in 1776. Soon, according to this principle made for the use of clocks and watches spring was also invented by hooke himself. A spring that obeys hooke's law is a real spring. The saucer spring was invented by the Frenchman belleville, it is a gasket spring with truncated conical section made of sheet metal or forging blank. After the emergence of modern industry, in addition to the disc spring also appeared gas spring, rubber spring, coil spring, die spring, stainless steel spring, air spring, memory alloy spring and other new springs.