Metalworking

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Metalworking is the craft and practice of working with metals to create structures or machine parts. The term covers a wide range of work, from large ships, bridges and oil refineries to delicate jewellery and instruments. Consequently, this craft covers a wide range of skills and entails the use of many types of tools.

Metalworking had its beginnings millennia in the past. Early humans apparently realized different stones had different properties. These were freed metal ores on the earth's surfaces. At some point in time humans discovered that certain rocks were meltable and able to be formed into various articles for tools, adornment and practical uses. Humans over the millennia learned to work raw metals into objects of art, adornment, trade and practicality.


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