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Henry Phillips
Henry Phillips was a Portland, Oregon, businessman with a penchant for
gadgets.
Realizing that carmakers needed a screw that could be driven with more
torque and that would hold tighter than slotted screws, he developed a
recessed cross screw that could be used easily with an automated
screwdriver.
The screw establishment was unimpressed. "The manufacture and
marketing of these articles don't promise sufficient commercial
success to warrant interesting ourselves further," wrote a
representative of the American Screw Company.
Phillips was undaunted, and when World War II broke out,
industrialists needed to turn out large quantities of jeeps and other
machines very quickly. The philips screw, and of course the phillips
screwdriver, caught on.
Interestingly, the Phillips Screw Company never manufactured a single
screw or screwdriver. It simply licensed the rights to manufacture the
products.
By 1919, the Phillips screwdriver had become so ubiquitous that
Phillips was stripped of the patent. He died in 1988 at age 68.
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