One hears about the iron age and the bronze age—eras in which people discovered metallurgy. But how did that happen? Was it like:
1. Look at rock
2. See shiny
3. Try to melt the shiny out of the rock
4. Profit?
Explain it to me!
In: 1643
I’ve always imagined it was an accident: they use a certain rock to build a camp fire and someone noticed there was some odd stuff that had melted out of it the next day. They then looked for a few more of them, and found they could see veins of metal, which they purposely tried to smelt, with success.
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