2007-05-15 10:19:32 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
We started making round ones around 1890 or so when industrial machinery was able to make them round. Prior to that all nails were either the square cut nail or wrought iron nails. The term "cut nail" just says that it was easier to cut the metal into strips, hence the square look. We still use them today. Cut nails are used to install hardwood floors and then there are the hardened ones that are used to drive into concrete.
2007-05-15 10:33:30 · answer #1 · answered by Al s 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Square nails were made by blacksmiths.
Cut nails were the first made by machine. Cut out of flat metal.
Today's round nails are called 'wire nails'.
2007-05-15 12:19:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Square nails were cut, while round nails are cast. The change occurred when we learned how to manufacture them more efficiently.
2007-05-15 10:34:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Al is right, I would like to ad, the pioneers would actually burn down their homes to get the nails they were so valuable then, and use them over, when they moved.
2007-05-15 11:18:30 · answer #4 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I never knew they were square to begin with ??
2007-05-15 10:26:39 · answer #5 · answered by mrs sexy pants 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When we started making them by machine, instead of by hand.
2007-05-15 10:32:26 · answer #6 · answered by shawnd518 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋