The invention and function of the spring

Spring has long been applied very early long ago, the ancient bow and crossbow is two broad sense of the spring. Spring's strict sense of the spring inventor should be the British scientist Hooke (Robert Hooke), although the spiral compression spring has been and widely used, but Hook proposed "Hooke's Law" - the amount of spring extension By the size of the force is proportional, it is based on this principle, in 1776, the use of spiral compression spring spring scale come out. Soon, according to this principle produced by the spring for the use of watches and clocks are also Heck himself invented. And in line with the "Hooke law" is the spring of the real sense of the spring.