Cast iron

Ancient · Household · 500 BCE

TL;DR

Cast iron - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Cast iron - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Preceding Inventions

Iron smelting and wrought iron

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Cast iron:

Grenade Finery forge Iron-framed building Mould-board plough Blast furnace Steelmaking with partial decarbonization Eruptor Land mine Industrial porcelain enamel

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Niche Construction Trophic Cascades Path Dependence Adaptive Radiation

Related Inventions

Mould-board plough Industrial porcelain enamel Steelmaking with partial decarbonization Land mine Iron smelting and wrought iron Blast furnace Eruptor Finery forge Iron-framed building Grenade

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Metallurgy

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