Photo of the Day
No. 387
This man is fabricating a wrought iron grill for the Empire State Building, c. 1931.
He has heated pieces of wrought iron to high temperature, then hammered them together using a technique called “forge welding” developed by the Hittites three thousand years ago.
Wrought iron is strong, malleable and corrosion resistant, and was initially used to make too…
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