Like most other basic mechanisms exist Bronze Age metal spring long . Even metal, wood is used as a structural member flexible bows and military catapult . In precise clocks Renaissance , makes precision springs first became inevitable. Fourteenth century saw a revolutionary astronomical clock accurate navigation development. Explore and conquer the world of European colonial powers continue to provide power watchmaker " Science and Art . Another area of firearms , and promote the development of the spring .
The advent of the industrial revolution of the eighteenth century the occasion , presented to a large , accurate and inexpensive spring . Given the watchmaker ' spring often hand-made , mass-produced material for spring piano wire or similar material . Advanced manufacturing methods to make today's spring is everywhere . Computer control lines and plate bending machine allows custom springs processing, obviously this is a dedicated machinery.
Spring is just an accumulator , which has the function of storing energy , but can not release energy slowly , slowly release to achieve this function should rely on " Spring + large transmission ratio mechanism " to achieve common in mechanical watches . Early spring there long before the application of the ancient bow and crossbow is spring two broad sense. The inventor in the strict sense of the spring should be a British scientist Hooke (RobertHooke), although when helical compression spring has appeared extensively to make
Spring torsion spring tension spring clamps tower spring ( 14 ) with , but Hooke proposed " Hooke 's Law" - the elongation of the spring is proportional to the size of the force , it is based on this principle , 1776 , using a helical compression spring balance advent of spring . Soon, according to the principle of making springs designed for clocks are also Hooke himself invented. The accord " Hooke 's Law " in the spring is a spring in the true sense . French disc springs Belleville invention is material or forging blanks made ??of spring washers truncated conical section of the metal plate . After the emergence of modern industry , in addition to disc springs also appeared gas springs, rubber springs, spiral spring , die springs , stainless steel springs, air springs, and other new memory alloy spring spring .