Historical Background on Screw Threads. It is considered by some that the screw thread was invented in about 400BC by Archytas of Tarentum (428 BC - 350 BC).

Who invented threading?

“But many consider that the screw thread was invented around 400 BC by [Greek philosopher] Archytas of Tarentum, who has often been called the founder of mechanics and considered a contemporary of Plato,” Eccles writes on his website.

Who invented cutting screw threads?

Artisans used their skills to produce them by hand, a very difficult and precise operation, until 1797 when Henry Maudslay (1771-1831), an English mechanical engineer became the founder of the machine-tool industry by inventing the screw cutting lathe.