Like most other basic mechanisms, metal springs have been around for a long time in the Bronze Age. Even with metal, wood is used as a structural component of flexible bows and military catapults. In the Renaissance, precise clocks made precision springs inevitable for the first time.

The fourteenth century saw the precise clock of the revolutionary astronomical navigation developed. The world explored and conquered the European colonial powers to continue to provide the power of the watchmaker "Science and Art. Another area of firearms that promoted the development of springs.

On the occasion of the industrial revolution of the eighteenth century, the proposed springs were large, accurate and cheap. In view of the fact that watchmakers' springs are often handmade, spring mass production is made of piano steel wire or similar materials. Advanced manufacturing methods make the springs ubiquitous.

Computer control lines and sheet bending machines allow custom springs Processing, obviously this is a special machine. The spring is just an accumulator, it has the function of storing energy, but can not slowly release the energy