The water powered bellows must have pre-dated the first iron blast furnace.
I cannot remember when that was on the Continent.
Schubert has a drawing from c.1440 of a waterpowered bellows for a forge
from a book of designs by Marianus Jacobus called Taccola of Sienna.
Peter
Peter Hutchison
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