History of rivets

The earliest rivets were small wooden or bone studs, and the earliest metal deformables may be the ancestors of the rivets we know.They are undoubtedly the oldest method of metal connection known to mankind, dating back to the earliest use of forgeable metals, such as the Bronze Age Egyptians who used rivets to rivet the six wooden sectors of the outer line of the slotted wheel together, and the Greeks who successfully cast large statues in bronze and then riveted the parts together.
In 1916, when H.V. White of the British Aircraft Manufacturing Company first obtained a patent for blind rivets that could be riveted on one side, people hardly expected that this rivet would be so widely used. From aerospace to office machines, electronic products and sports equipment, it can be said that this blind rivet has now become an effective and stable mechanical connection method. It is not very clear when the hollow rivet was invented for equipment, but horse harness was invented in the 9th or 10th century AD. Riveted harnesses, like nailed horseshoes, liberated slaves from heavy labor. Rivets also led to many important inventions, such as iron pliers used by copper and iron workers and wool shears for shepherds.