Metalworking
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Metalworking is the process of shaping and reshaping metals in order to create useful objects, parts, assemblies, and large scale structures. As a term, it covers a wide and diverse range of processes
A fireman turning a bar of metal on a lathe on the USS Harry S. Truman in 2004
Le Marteleur by Constantin Meunier (1886)
A turret-lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, in the 1940s
A combination square used for transferring designs
Forging
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Forging is a manufacturing process involving the shaping of metal using localized compressive forces. The blows are delivered with a hammer or a die. Forging is often classified according to the tempe
Metalworking
…civilizations and millennia. It has evolved from shaping soft, native metals like gold with simple hand tools, through the smelting of ores and hot forging of harder metals like iron, up to and including highly technical modern processes such as machining and welding. It has been used as an industry, a…
Hot metal ingot being loaded into a hammer forge
A billet in an open-die forging press
A cross-section of a forged connecting rod that has been etched to show the grain flow
Open-die drop forging (with two dies) of an ingot to be further processed into a wheel