Jacomy, Bruno (Author)
Rebecca Reid (Author)
IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Volume: 24
Issue: 2
Pages: 36-52
Throughout the entire 19th century and a part of the 20th, riveting was practically the only means of assembling all flat metal. Four industrial sectors used riveting on a very large scale: iron and steel construction (bridges, frames, cranes, etc.), shipbuilding (ships, barges, etc.), and boilermaking (mainly boilers for steam engines). Because of its infrastructure and equipment, the expansion of the railway played a key role in the development of riveting technology. Riveting soon turned out to be a particularly crucial, slow, and therefore costly operation in the production of a metal unit. Engineers started working on this problem very early on with a view to developing machines that could increase productivity. Over a period of almost a century, several hundred riveting machines were invented, based on all known principles and using all available energy sources.
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