I have scene pictures of a forg in Java that is made of rock or concrete,
with Bamboo sfats tyhe apprentice helper is using the flooms from feathers
secured to a ball and rope pulling the rope up and down to allow air to pass
through. I am still researching the old forges. If anyone can help I am
lookinf ro Middle Ages era looking information or earlier. lest say from
5000 BC to 1600 AD, that should gather some information.
jeff spoor
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At 11:13 AM 11/20/98 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear listmembers,
>
>>> At 10:57 12-11-98 PST, Ned Rehder wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >Evidence for the early use of bellows is indeed scant. There is
>>> > good evidence that they were introduced into Egypt by the Hyksos,
>>> >but before that very little. They were apparently never used in
>>> >precolumbian South America. I will be very interested in any
>>> >positive evidence of early use anywhere.
>>> >
Ned.
>
>
>On 18 Nov 1998 09:10:13 I wrote:
>
>
>>> I'd be very interested in the evidence you mention of bellows being
>>> introduced into Egypt by the Hyksos. Could you please let me know?
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Jeannette Drost
>>>
>
>To which Ned Rehder answered:
>
>>The timing of the introductionof bellows to Egypt is shown by tomb
>>reliefs of metallurgical subjects. They show blowpipes before and
>>bellows after the Hyksos interval. More specifically, Zwicker in 1969
>>narrowed the time down to the first quarter of the second millennium
>>B.C. Unfortuneately I now cannot find in my files the specific journal
>>ocation of the statement.
>> Ned
>>
>>
>Thank you for this information, Ned.
>Perhaps someone else on the list knows the article that Ned mentions? Would
>they please share this information with me?
>Jeannette Drost
>
>
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