Bloomery

Ancient · Household · 1200 BCE

TL;DR

Bloomery - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Bloomery - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Preceding Inventions

Iron smelting and wrought iron Piston bellows

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Bloomery:

Trompe and Catalan forge

Independent Emergence

Evidence of inevitability—this invention emerged independently in multiple locations:

Middle East (unspecified)

Parallel development

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Path Dependence Convergent Evolution

Related Inventions

Piston bellows Iron smelting and wrought iron Trompe and Catalan forge

Tags

Metallurgy

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