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Smithing
A metalsmith or simply smith is a craftsperson fashioning useful items (for example, tools, kitchenware, tableware, jewelry, armor and weapons) out of various metals. Smithing is one of the oldest metalworking occupations. Shaping metal with a hammer (forging) is the archetypical component of smithing. Often the hammering is done while the metal is hot, having been heated in a forge. Smithing can also involve the other aspects of metalworking, such as refining metals from their ores (traditionally done by smelting), casting it into shapes (founding), and filing to shape and size. The prevalence of metalworking in the culture of recent centuries has led ''Smith'' and its equivalents in various languages to be a common occupational surname (German Schmidt or Schmied, Portuguese Ferreiro, Ferreira, French Lefèvre, Spanish Herrero, Italian Fabbri, Ferrari, Ferrero, Ukrainian Koval etc.). As a suffix, ''-smith'' connotes a meaning of a specialized craftsperson—for example, ''w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hammer
A hammer is a tool, most often a hand tool, consisting of a weighted "head" fixed to a long handle that is swung to deliver an impact to a small area of an object. This can be, for example, to drive nails into wood, to shape metal (as with a forge), or to crush rock. Hammers are used for a wide range of driving, shaping, breaking and non-destructive striking applications. Traditional disciplines include carpentry, blacksmithing, warfare, and percussive musicianship (as with a gong). Hammering is use of a hammer in its strike capacity, as opposed to prying with a secondary claw or grappling with a secondary hook. Carpentry and blacksmithing hammers are generally wielded from a stationary stance against a stationary target as gripped and propelled with one arm, in a lengthy downward planar arc—downward to add kinetic energy to the impact—pivoting mainly around the shoulder and elbow, with a small but brisk wrist rotation shortly before impact; for extreme impact, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forge
A forge is a type of hearth used for heating metals, or the workplace (smithy) where such a hearth is located. The forge is used by the smith to heat a piece of metal to a temperature at which it becomes easier to shape by forging, or to the point at which work hardening no longer occurs. The metal (known as the "workpiece") is transported to and from the forge using tongs, which are also used to hold the workpiece on the smithy's anvil while the smith works it with a hammer. Sometimes, such as when hardening steel or cooling the work so that it may be handled with bare hands, the workpiece is transported to the slack tub, which rapidly cools the workpiece in a large body of water. However, depending on the metal type, it may require an oil quench or a salt brine instead; many metals require more than plain water hardening. The slack tub also provides water to control the fire in the forge. Types Coal/coke/charcoal forge A forge typically uses bituminous coal, indu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
File (tool)
A file is a tool used to remove fine amounts of material from a workpiece. It is common in woodworking, metalworking, and other similar trade and hobby tasks. Most are hand tools, made of a case hardened steel bar of rectangular, square, triangular, or round cross-section, with one or more surfaces cut with sharp, generally parallel teeth. A narrow, pointed tang is common at one end, to which a handle may be fitted.. A rasp is a form of file with distinct, individually cut teeth used for coarsely removing large amounts of material. Files have also been developed with abrasive surfaces, such as natural or synthetic diamond grains or silicon carbide, allowing removal of material that would dull or resist steel files, such as ceramic. History Early filing or rasping has prehistoric roots and grew naturally out of the blending of the twin inspirations of cutting with stone cutting tools (such as hand axes) and abrading using natural abrasives, such as well-suited types of st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metalworking
Metalworking is the process of shaping and reshaping metals to create useful objects, parts, assemblies, and large scale structures. As a term it covers a wide and diverse range of processes, skills, and tools for producing objects on every scale: from huge ships, buildings, and bridges down to precise engine parts and delicate jewelry. The historical roots of metalworking predate recorded history; its use spans cultures, 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 highly technical modern processes such as machining and welding. It has been used as an industry, a driver of trade, individual hobbies, and in the creation of art; it can be regarded as both a science and a craft. Modern metalworking processes, though diverse and specialized, can be categorized into one of three broad areas known as forming, cutting, or joining processes. Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forging
Forging is a manufacturing process involving the shaping of metal using localized compressive forces. The blows are delivered with a hammer (often a power hammer) or a die. Forging is often classified according to the temperature at which it is performed: cold forging (a type of cold working), warm forging, or hot forging (a type of hot working). For the latter two, the metal is heated, usually in a forge. Forged parts can range in weight from less than a kilogram to hundreds of metric tons.Degarmo, p. 389 Forging has been done by smiths for millennia; the traditional products were kitchenware, hardware, hand tools, edged weapons, cymbals, and jewellery. Since the Industrial Revolution, forged parts are widely used in mechanisms and machines wherever a component requires high strength; such forgings usually require further processing (such as machining) to achieve a finished part. Today, forging is a major worldwide industry. History Forging is one of the oldest known me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewelry
Jewellery ( UK) or jewelry (U.S.) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes. From a western perspective, the term is restricted to durable ornaments, excluding flowers for example. For many centuries metal such as gold often combined with gemstones, has been the normal material for jewellery, but other materials such as glass, shells and other plant materials may be used. Jewellery is one of the oldest types of archaeological artefact – with 100,000-year-old beads made from ''Nassarius'' shells thought to be the oldest known jewellery.Study reveals 'oldest jewellery' , '' |
Koval (surname)
Koval ( uk, Коваль, Koval') is a Ukrainian surname. The word means "blacksmith", making "Koval" the equivalent of "Smith" in the English-speaking world.Ganzhina, I. M. (2001''Словарь современных русских фамилий'' Moscow: Astrel. p. 260. . Notable people with the name include: * Anastasia Koval (born 1992), Ukrainian artistic gymnast * Andriy Koval (born 1983), Ukrainian football player * Denis Koval (born 1991), Russian speed skater * George Koval (1913–2006), spy for the Soviet Union in the United States * Ihor Koval (born 1955), Ukrainian historian and political scholar * Ivan Koval-Samborsky (1893–1962), Ukrainian stage and film actor * J. J. Koval (born 1992), American soccer player * Maksym Koval (born 1992), Ukrainian football goalkeeper * Mykhailo Koval (born 1956), Ukrainian military officer, Minister of Defence of Ukraine * Mykola Koval (born 1952), Ukrainian operatic baritone * Oleksandr Koval (born 1974), Ukrainian football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferrero
Ferrero (Italian: , Spanish: ) is a surname of Italian (from Piedmont) and Spanish origin that means 'smith', the person who works with iron, in parallel with surnames like Ferraro, Ferrari and Smith. Notable people with the surname Ferrero include: * Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora (1804–1878), Italian general and statesman * Benita Ferrero-Waldner (b. 1948), Austrian diplomat and politician *Edward Ferrero (1831–1899), Union general famous for his role in the Battle of the Crater *Giovanni Ferrero (b. 1964), managing director of Ferrero SpA, son of Michele Ferrero *Guglielmo Ferrero (1871–1942), Italian historian, journalist, and novelist * Juan Ferrero (1918–1958), Spanish bodybuilder. *Juan Carlos Ferrero (b. 1980), Spanish tennis player * Lorenzo Ferrero (b. 1951), Italian composer *Martin Ferrero (b. 1947), American actor *Michele Ferrero (1925–2015), Italian chocolate magnate *Michele Ferrero (priest) (b. 1967), Italian Roman Catholic priest and author *Pietro Ferrero ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferrari (other)
Ferrari is an Italian sports car manufacturer. Ferrari may also refer to: People * Ferrari (surname) ** Enzo Ferrari (1898–1988), founder of Italian automaker Ferrari S.p.A. ** Ettore Ferrari (1845-1929), Italian sculptor, politician and Grand Master of the Grande Oriente d'Italia ** Piero Ferrari, vice chairman of Italian automaker Ferrari S.p.A. ** Philipp von Ferrary (1850–1917), sometimes spelt ''Ferrari'', philatelist who assembled one of the most complete stamp collections ever * Ferraris (surname) Arts, entertainment and media * ''Ferrari'' (film), a 2003 film * "Ferrari" (song), by James Hype and Miggy Dela Rosa * "Ferrari", a song by Yemi Alade from the album '' Mama Africa'' * "Ferrari", a song by Bebe Rexha from the album '' Expectations'' * "Ferrari", a song by German-Kurdish rapper Eno featuring German-Turkish rapper Mero from Eno's 2019 album ''Fuchs'' * ''Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge'', also known as ''F-1 Hero MD'', a 1992 Formula One racing video game fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schmidt (surname)
Schmidt is a common German occupational surname derived from the German word "Wikt:Schmied, Schmied" meaning "blacksmith" and/or "metalworker". This surname is the German equivalent of "Smith (surname), Smith" in the English-speaking world. Schmidt German immigrants migrated to England and developed an understanding of English culture. Schmidt was commonly used in the English world as "Smith". Travelers would grow accustomed to the English, Irish, and Scottish change of lifestyle and eventually their names also changed. German migration to England was very common. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 64.9% of all known bearers of the surname ''Schmidt'' were residents of Germany (frequency 1:113), 18.2% of the United States (1:1,809), 3.7% of Brazil (1:5,058), 1.7% of Canada (1:1,936), 1.5% of Austria (1:503), 1.3% of Denmark (1:398), 1.1% of South Africa (1:4,469), 1.1% of Argentina (1:3,635) and 1.0% of France (1:6,167). In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabbri (other) , Perugia, Italy
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Fabbri is an Italian surname. Fabbri may also refer to: * Fabbri Group, an Italian amusement rides manufacturer, based in Bergantino * Fratelli Fabbri Editori, an Italian publishing house now part of Rcs MediaGroup * Fabbri and Partners Ltd., an English publishing house * ''Via Paolo Fabbri 43'', an album by Francesco Guccini * Fabbri, a locality (or ''frazione'') of the commune of Montefalco Montefalco is a historic small hill town in Umbria, Italy, with a population of 5,581 in August 2017. It has been settled since pre-Roman times, and retains many of its historic buildings. From 1446 to 1861 it was part of the Papal States. Montef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suffix
In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns, adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can carry grammatical information (inflectional suffixes) or lexical information ( derivational/lexical suffixes'').'' An inflectional suffix or a grammatical suffix. Such inflection changes the grammatical properties of a word within its syntactic category. For derivational suffixes, they can be divided into two categories: class-changing derivation and class-maintaining derivation. Particularly in the study of Semitic languages, suffixes are called affirmatives, as they can alter the form of the words. In Indo-European studies, a distinction is made between suffixes and endings (see Proto-Indo-European root). Suffixes can carry grammatical information or lexical information. A word-final segment that is somewhere between a free morpheme and a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
