2006-08-02 08:36:00 · 6 answers · asked by Little C 3 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Other - Electronics
Screwdrivers are from Henry F. Phillips the american guy.
Electronics is Philips (only one L) is a company from the Netherlands.
2006-08-02 08:42:01 · answer #1 · answered by FF 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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Henry P. Phillips (1890 – 1958) was a U.S. businessman from Portland, Oregon, and inventor of the Phillips-head screw and screwdriver. His inventions built on an earlier concept credited to the inventor J. P. Thompson.
The importance of the crosshead screw design is its self-centering properties, useful on automated production lines which use powered screwdrivers. Phillips' major contribution was in driving the crosshead concept forwards to a point where it was adopted by screwmakers and automobile companies.
Although he received patents for the design in 1936 (US Patent #2,046,343, US Patents #2,046,837 to 2,046,840), it was so widely copied that by 1949 Phillips lost his patent.
The American Screw Company was responsible for devising a means of manufacturing the screw, and successfully patented and licensed their method; other screw makers of the 1930s dismissed the Phillips concept since it calls for a relatively complex recessed socket shape in the head of the screw — as distinct from the simple milled slot of a flathead screw.
The Phillips Screw Company and the American Screw Company went on to devise the Pozidriv screw, which differs from the Phillips in that it is designed to accommodate greater torque than the Phillips.
2006-08-02 15:42:29 · answer #2 · answered by KIT-KAT 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Henry P. Phillips (1890 – 1958) was a U.S. businessman from Portland, Oregon, and inventor of the Phillips-head screw and screwdriver. His inventions built on an earlier concept credited to the inventor J. P. Thompson.
The importance of the crosshead screw design is its self-centering properties, useful on automated production lines which use powered screwdrivers. Phillips' major contribution was in driving the crosshead concept forwards to a point where it was adopted by screwmakers and automobile companies.
Although he received patents for the design in 1936 (US Patent #2,046,343, US Patents #2,046,837 to 2,046,840), it was so widely copied that by 1949 Phillips lost his patent.
The American Screw Company was responsible for devising a means of manufacturing the screw, and successfully patented and licensed their method; other screw makers of the 1930s dismissed the Phillips concept since it calls for a relatively complex recessed socket shape in the head of the screw — as distinct from the simple milled slot of a flathead screw.
The Phillips Screw Company and the American Screw Company went on to devise the Pozidriv screw, which differs from the Phillips in that it is designed to accommodate greater torque than the Phillips.
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Apparently not.
2006-08-02 15:40:17 · answer #3 · answered by Meh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so.....
Henry F. Phillips invented both the screw and the driver that bear his name. The Oregon businessman patented two versions of a fastening device for crosshead screws in 1934 and 1936. Phillips intended the screw for use with automatic screwdrivers and marketed it for mass-production industries such as auto manufacturing.
2006-08-02 15:42:26 · answer #4 · answered by Tangled Web 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It got it's name one day when Bob looked down at his new screwdriver with the funny tip and then looked over at his co-workers and said... "Hey, it looks like Phillip's Head"
And thus the legend continues...
2006-08-02 15:41:16 · answer #5 · answered by corwinnn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea.
2006-08-03 15:53:49 · answer #6 · answered by Mommymonster 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋