I’ve recently watched a video of Tom Scott on his second channel where he made (with the help of a blacksmith) make a bottle opener.
The guy first made Tom to blacksmith a punch or whatever then he mentioned that “Blacksmiths had to make their own tools” or something among the lines anyways.
So it struck me. How did people make their first tools? Are there any records? Or were people just banging rocks to the metal, made a primitive sledgehammer then used that further on?
How did they even came up with the idea that if you put metal in fire you can *remodel* it?
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melted lead was found at cooking sights that predate chemically tanned leather, (called veg tan today, it’s still done basically the same way today as like a bizzilan years ago just in bigger batch, and with more consistency). veg tan leather predates homosapians.
lead melting lead was likely a “toy” around a camp fire. melting at about 650, to 700 the first set of tongs,( the most important metal working tool) were likely molded in sand then filled with lead. and then filled with solid lead then melted, probably with the intent of making a cooking tool
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