Blast furnace

Ancient · Household · 200 BCE

TL;DR

Blast furnace - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Blast furnace - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Preceding Inventions

Piston bellows

Enabling Materials

  • Cast iron
  • Charcoal

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Blast furnace:

Water-powered blast furnace Hot blast Steelmaking with partial decarbonization

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Path Dependence

Related Inventions

Piston bellows Hot blast Steelmaking with partial decarbonization Water-powered blast furnace

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Metallurgy

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