Blacksmith

History

The activity of blacksmith appeared at the same time as the discovery of the work of metals, approximately 5.000 years front J. - C.; it became a trade with whole share as the people expressed their need to have more resistant objects and with the varied uses: mechanical tools, weapons, parts, grids, keys, jewels, etc In antiquity, the blacksmiths used in their furnaces, of the Charcoal rather than of the coal. This is due to the fact that the charcoal is a Combustible, more difficult to ignite than the seasoned wood, but which releases a heat quite higher than that which the combustion of wood produces.

With the the Middle Ages, the blacksmith generally used a anvil and a hammer to work pieces of Bronze, Cuivre or money, after having carried them to Incandescence in refractory furnaces highly . One calls forging mill the workshop of the blacksmith, and Forgeage his activity. The parts are heated in a coal blazing inferno of coal which fire is maintained by a blower connected to a conduit.

The wheels of carts were manufactured by the cartwright and then ringed hot by the blacksmith. In the villages, it was the occasion of a meeting of labor to ring several wheels in the course of the day. The iron rim had been manufactured with a circumference lower by two or three centimetres than that of the wheel out of wooden. Dilation made it possible to place this rim and to tighten it by cooling around the wheel. Today, this technique is reproduced at the time of rural festivals. To manufacture objects having to support important constraints (swords, shields…), various Alloy S and treatment (Damas) were developed.

The craftsman whose trade consists with to shoe the horses is the Marshal-shoeing.

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Famous blacksmiths

Real blacksmiths

Abraham Darby (3rd of the name) built the Iron Bridge in 1779. It is the first metallic bridge ever built. It is always upright.
Kirkpatrick Macmillan, this blacksmith Scottish invented the bicycle ordered by pedals in 1838.
Thomas Newcomen is a blacksmith of Devon, he invented and built in 1712 the first true Steam engine, that from of which all the alternate machines go down.

Imaginary blacksmiths

Aulë, God blacksmith of the Ground of the medium.
Biggoron character present in the series of video games the legend of Zelda . Its size exceeds that of the mountains. It is a blacksmith except par.
Cétautomatix is the blacksmith of the village of Astérix the Gallic.
Lanfeust de Troy is an apprentice blacksmith, hero of the comic strip éponyme.
Ron Berku is a legendary blacksmith of the Manga Fly.

Blacksmiths in mythology

Brokk and Sindri is the dwarves blacksmiths, wire of Ivaldir, their forging mill is installed in a cave of the Midgard. They forged hair of Sif, the lance of Odin Gungnir and the boat Skidbladnir in the Scandinavian Mythologie.
Thor most extremely of the Ases gods in the Scandinavian Mythologie is the guard of the blacksmiths, the craftsmen and the peasants. He is the principal enemy of the giants and of the Trolls, He leads a carriage drawn by two goats and carries the hammer Mjöllnir. He is one of wire of Odin, it is most popular of all the Scandinavian Gods.

Brigit goddess-mother of the Celtic Mythology. It is amongst other things the owner of the blacksmiths.
Culann, in the Celtic Mythologie Irish he is the blacksmith of Ulster during the reign of Conchobar Mac Nessa.
Gofannon is a god of the Celtic Mythologie Welsh. Its name means blacksmith.
Goibniu is the god-blacksmith of the Tuatha Dé Danann in the Celtic Mythologie Irish.
Héphaïstos usually represented under the features of a lame blacksmith, it is the god of fire, the forging mills and the volcanos in the Greek Mythologie.
Vulcan god of fire, blacksmith of the gods, in the Roman Mythology.
Seppo Ilmarinen is a blacksmith of the Finnish Mythologie.

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Forging mill
Ironwork
Wrought iron

External bonds

Mail of Vietnam - Da If, the Royal village of the blacksmiths
Naval Museum - Blacksmiths blacksmiths of the British Navy, with photographs.

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