Basic Technology
Some important Renaissance technologies, including both innovations and improvements on existing techniques:
- mining and metallurgy
- blast furnace enabled iron to be produced in significant quantities
- finery forge enabled pig iron (from the blast furnace) into bar iron (wrought iron)
- slitting mill mechanized the production of iron rods for nailmaking
- smeltmill increased the output of lead over previous methods (bole hill)
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