Screws and Screw Theory.

I own a copy of the book A Treatise on the Theory of Screws by Robert Ball published around 1900. The algebra of screws, and the related twists and wrenches seem to have played an important role in the study of rigid body dynamics at the time. But that terminology seems to play very little role in any writing on that subject that I've seen more recently. Except in around 2000 the terminology picked up again because of applications to robotics and to rigid body simulation (that I learnt about via simulations in the video games and visual effects industry).