The steam hammer defined the industrial age.
Steam hammer used for forging steel at the Midvale Steel Company, c. 1905.
When both came to learn about each others work, a dispute arose over who had invented the machine.
It weighed 2,500 kilograms and lifted to 2 meters.
Its design was copied, after purchasing the appropriate patent rights, from the Creusot hammer at Le Creusot.
Eventually hydraulic and mechanical presses made the great steam hammers of the industrial age obsolete.
Others were relocated to public parks.
It was disassembled in 1969 and rebuilt in the towns public square.
The Creusot steam hammer in Le Creusot, France.
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A Nasmyth & Wilson steam hammer at the University of Bolton.
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A steam hammer stands at Brightside, England.
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A steam hammer in Bjorneborgs, Sweden.
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A Nasmyth Steam Hammer at the M54 Services, in Telford, England.
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A small steam hammer at North Woolwich, London, England.
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Steam Powered Hammer seen near Wigan Pier, England.
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A steam hammer at Sandviken, Sweden.
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Sources:Wikipedia/ASME.org
