Proposed by Swedish engineer Johan August Brinell in 1900, it was the first widely used and standardised hardness test in engineering and metallurgy.
Skúška bola navrhnutá švédskym inžinierom Johanom Augustom Brinellom v roku 1900, a stala sa prvou široko používanou štandardizovanou skúškou tvrdosti v strojárstve a metalurgii.