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Metalworking Forging Tools

The tools and equipment of the traditional smithy, used to heat metal and shape it by hammering or pressing while it is hot, rather than the general purpose power tools used cold on a modern workbench. This includes the anvil, forge and bellows themselves, blacksmith's tongs and ordinary tongs used to hold a hot workpiece, struck tools such as the fuller, hardy tool, set tool, pritchel and swage block that shape metal against the anvil, powered forging hammers such as the power hammer, steam hammer and water driven trip hammer, the tuyere that carries air into the forge fire, sheet metal shaping tools such as the English wheel, hand seamer, dolly and draw plate, and the propane torch used to heat metal to a workable temperature.

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1500 BCE 1
Metalworking Forging Tools
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1. Blacksmith (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationBlacksmith, History section
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The Hittites of Anatolia first discovered or developed the smelting of iron ores around 1500 BC.
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