Learn about the fasteners that are responsible for holding just about everything in our homes together. Here's how to ...

Drive: The shape of the mechanism used to install and remove screws.Some of the most common drive shapes are cross-head, square, star, slotted and hex socket. Head: The top of the screw, which ...

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Even better is the Robertson, or square-drive screw--a favorite of professional woodworkers. Some screws come with a combination Phillips/Robertson head.

The Robertson square-drive: a screw topped with a square hole ready to receive its matching hand driver. A thing of beauty for Canadian woodworkers because that recessed square won't let you slip out.

This changed in 1908, when Canadian P.L. Robertson patented the “first recess-drive type fastener practical for production usage,” a recessed square-drive screw that bears his name.