The earliest rivets were small pegs made of wood or bone, and the earliest metal variants were probably the ancestors of what we know today as pull rivets. They are without a doubt the oldest known method of joining metals, going back as far as the earliest use of malleable metals, eg: Bronze Age Egyptians riveted the six wooden sectors of the outer lines of a slotted wheel with rivets Fastened together, after the Greeks had successfully cast the large statue in bronze, the parts were riveted together with rivets.
In 1916, when H. V. White of the British Aircraft Manufacturing Company first obtained a patent for a pull rivet that can be riveted on one side, it was hardly expected that this kind of pull rivet would be so widely used today. From aerospace to office machines, electronics and sports field equipment, it can be said that this type of rivet has now become an effective and stable mechanical connection method.
Most of the hollow blind rivets are invented for the manufacture or maintenance of harness equipment. It is not very clear when the hollow blind rivet was invented, but the harness was invented in the 9th or 10th century AD. The riveted harness, like the nailed horse's hoof, freed slaves from heavy labor, and riveting also led to many important inventions, such as iron pliers for copper and iron workers and wool shears.
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