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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It’s been a long time since I’ve reviewed the sequence but you can start with raw ore and a couple rocks and work your way up from there.
Every tool you make can be used to make the next one.
So you start with a nice rock to ue as a hand hammer. Use that to make a hammer with a handle. Use that and a fire to make copper, bronze, or iron and so on.
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