Sam Salvati Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 Please everyone, I am looking and researching about the major styles of pre iron age into very early iron age into mid iron age into iron age into early steel age. Please if anyone has any information on the DESIGNS, shapes, styles, fuel type, definately pictures, I would be VERY greatful. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 "Iron and Man in Prehistoric Sweden" Divers Arts, Theophilus De Re Metallica, Agricola Cathedral Forge and Water Wheel Egyptian Metal Working tools History of Metallurgy Sources for the history of the Science of steel The Knight and the Blast Furnace (metallurgy of medieval/renaissance armour) The Mastery and Uses of Fire in Antiquity Metallurgy in Archeology Medieval Iron in Society Thw ASM has published articles and books on historical metalworking as has some of the journals like JOMS and there is an Archeological Metallurgy mailing list Arch-Metals that you can get on. Proceedings of the IronMasters Conferences BTW what foreign languages do you read archeological/technological stuff in? Good name to look for are Radomir Pleiner, Alan Williams, R.F Tylecote, Cyril Stanley Smith as being people who were familiar with metallurgy when they started researching their works, (archeologists who are not familiar with metalworking can make some lovely errors!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Salvati Posted October 22, 2006 Author Share Posted October 22, 2006 Nice! Thanks Thomas! Those are all books you listed right? Does anyone have any simple pictures of prehistoric forges? Like a timeline of forges would be AWESOME. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daryl Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 Try Diederot's Encyclopedia of Trades (I think I spelled the name correctly), it is available from Dover publications. It has a couple old woodcut examples of forges, etc. from the era just preceeding the Industrial Revolution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Mechanic Exercises by joseph Moxon published in 1703 has a section on blacksmithing if you are into recent stuff. Yes those are books---most of them I own (and I'm US$150/300 towards The Knight and the Blast Furnace) With Pleiner's work on early iron next in the queue, I have his book on the Celtic Sword and found it very good. I have some books in spanish and german that cover the iron age as well. ILL is your friend---usually, the local library wanted $25 to ILL TK&TBF!, Thomas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Salvati Posted October 24, 2006 Author Share Posted October 24, 2006 Cool. I will make the list for the library. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferrous Beuler Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 You have peaked my interest ApprenticeMan, now I HAVE to go back to the library and look up a book I had my nose in once. Subject was history of man's use of metals, title escapes but I will find it there. In it is an early iron age dig in persia (Iran) which I described to someone else here on this forum. This archaeological dig site unearthed an early blacksmithing settup which was VERY basic. The "forge" was a shallow hole in the ground. The bellows was the really neat part and I will see about getting an image to post. The bellows consisted of a pair of "airbags", goatskins, one presumably held under each arm and alternately one bag would be squeezed and then the other to produce a steady stream of air. Each bag had a wooden stem or "pipe" leading from it and each of these terminated in a ceramic tip, right at the coals. Charcoal was the fuel used. What I could not get from the description given was how the bags filled with air once empty. As I said, all in all a very simple and ancient approach to smithing. I'll find it this weekend and get back on this one. Keep on hammerin'. Dan:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Salvati Posted October 25, 2006 Author Share Posted October 25, 2006 Cool, thanks Ferrous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 ASM pubblished a number of titles like "Man, Metals and Magic" back in the '50's? that were a gee whiz sort of look at how we got involved with and use metals. They are not a good basis for research unfortunatley... "Out of the Firey Furnace" is a much more modern view. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Salvati Posted October 25, 2006 Author Share Posted October 25, 2006 Cool, i'll add that one to the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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