blacksmithing.ers will teach the afghan people how to take scrap metal left behind following years of war and turn it into tools for farming. >> for example, a plow. you know, if that's a hand-driven wheelbarrow plow or if it's an ox-driven plow, something that helps them till the earth. >> reporter: their class lasts five days. normally, it would take someone years to learn to be a blacksmith. >> historically, a blacksmith apprenticeship would be anywhere from about four to seven years long. primarily, what the class is concentrating on is being able to set up a blacksmith shop, a working blacksmith shop, using scavenged and found materials. >> reporter: the soldiers are learning how to make items like hammers and chains that can be created and used in afghan villages. >> i'm forging a chain link right now. if they're 100 or more years behind, you've got to go back to that time to find things that are practical and useful for them. they don't have the walmarts and the stores where they can go purch

he worked in his father's farm and learned blacksmithing from his uncle. he went off to search for a farm of his own. he crossed the connecticut river and visited relatives and intending to proceed north. this is a family story which i would take with a grain of salt. it serves my purposes wonderfully. i, of course, will use it. according to the family accounts, he saw a pair of globes. globes at this point in time usually were in pairs. probably the first globes he ever saw. he saw them, according to the story, at dartmouth where he peered at them through a keyhole of a locked laboratory room. so how much better could it be from him and objects that are unavailable to someone from his midland station. this fired his imagination that he was going to make his own globes, when which we will use sell. this furthered his resolve to manufacture his globes. he moved to bradford. he and his cousin made axes to purchase his land. the next year he made his first globe. it was a large, solid wooden ball covered with paper with the continents and countries drawn in p

he worked in his father's farm and learned blacksmithing from his uncle. but in 1795 he set off to really search for a new farm, more land of his own. he set off for brat ford, vermont, crossing the connecticut river to visit relatives and then intending to proceed north. however, and this is a family story which i would take with a grain of salt. it's suprahypochyphal, but it serves my purposes wonderful. i, of course, will use it. according to the family accounts, he saw a pair of globes. globes at this point in time usually were in pairs. probably these were the first globes he ever saw. he saw them, according to the story, at dartmouth where he peered at them through a keyhole of a locked laboratory room. so how much better could it be in terms of knowledge hidden from him and objects that are unavailable to someone from his midland station. this fired his imagination that he was going to make his own globes which he was then going to sell to a wider populous. this furthered his resolve to manufacture his globes. he later then moved to bradford. he and

structure began to erode, suddenly use of a town's emerging and they were populated by artisans, blacksmiths, the beginning of what you might call professional people, bankers, and then over time the cities became the vanguard of a commercial revolution and economic activity, debt instruments, banks, little workshops that eventually became laboratories. they were able to thrive because the pushback against the bill because of the malarkey and the church. in the rest of the world empires were much stronger and they were able to maintain centralization. what you saw in europe the fragmentation of the institutions, the birth of the bourgeoisie that increases the products of the reformation that slowly pushed the church out of politics and led to the secular realm all of that happened only in europe and crossed the north atlantic and happened here in the united states but it led to the period in which technological and economically the western world pulled far ahead of the competitors and that technology also allowed them to penetrate the competitors. they get better ships, better navigation, an

also a woman and a man who was forty five to fifty years old when he was buried we think he was a blacksmith those men had died in battle. have been found and some of the skeletons skulls of other men were fractured with an axe. the romans convoy suddenly stops at the edge of a swamp it's too dangerous to drive any further. the travelers spend a good deal of time walking around the frozen silt when they manage to measure the swamps and everybody realizes that attempting to cross the swamp is out of the question. we. will have to look for another routes. and there is one and a half meters of water underneath is. however another road makes up for their misfortune it leads to what for centuries has been known locally as the fortress mountain. the maori people who lived here a long time ago used it as a hideout against intruders legend has it that the maori people were terrified of being caught by the of new forest creatures covered with hair who had chosen to settle in the mountains caves. were black. if they felt their breasts were when they were on the. shoulders. they had little contact with

are connected to shoes, bottles, shards of a pot here, you see somethings that were made in the blacksmith shop a variety of things that indicate it was a domestic site and an industrial site where work was done in a variety of ways at an early age, somewhere between 10 and 11 where youngsters would work at the textile mill or nailery and then from there they would then move to other areas in the domestics sphere or in the skilled labor area, or back into the agricultural field i wanted to talk specifically about one man by the name of john hemmings a master car penter, he was very very much a family man and also, a man of faith. i wanted to show you this head stone because it was a head stone he carved for his wife he called it this is a place for my dear affectionate wife pray sill la somewhere around the summer 1830 she became ill as she moved further and further away closer to the end of her life she said to him one night as he was reading the bible to her, she said i have something for you, you might want to look under the looking glass he did she had a cravat for him and a head band

erode, suddenly you saw new towns, small towns emerge, and be they were populated by artisans, by blacksmiths, by the beginnings of what you might call professional people, bankers. and then over time those cities became the vanguard or of a commercial -- vanguard of a commercial revolution and economic activity, debt instruments, banks, little workshops that eventually became laboratories. they were able to thrive because they pushed back against the nobility, the monarchy and the church. and the rest of the world empires were much stronger, and they were able to maintain centralization. and, therefore, what you saw in europe, the fragmentation of traditional institutions, the birth of the bourgeois si that embraced the protestant reformation which slowly pushed the catholic church out of politics and led to a sort of secular realm, all of that happened only in northern europe. it then crossed the atlantic and happened here in the united states. but it led to a period in which technologically and economically the western world pulled far ahead of the competitors. and that technology also all

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