Lead smelting

Prehistoric · Household · 6500 BCE

TL;DR

Lead smelting - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Lead smelting - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Preceding Inventions

Control of fire

Required Knowledge

  • Periodic table elements

Enabling Materials

  • Charcoal

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Lead smelting:

Lead pipes Concept of chemical element Lead chamber process Rechargeable battery White lead Pewter Printing Press

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Niche Construction Trophic Cascades Path Dependence

Related Inventions

Lead chamber process Pewter Control of fire Rechargeable battery Concept of chemical element White lead Lead pipes Printing Press

Tags

Metallurgy

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