The fires of industry

A few years ago I watched a (5 part) documentary featuring professor Iain Stewart entitled "How Earth Made Us". In one of the episodes, "Fire", they talk about the invention of metal smelting. I found that segment particularly inspiring, and I always hoped that one day this could be accurately depicted in an Ultima style game, both from a historical aspect, but also because it would tie together a lot of the traditional RPG crafting roles in a way that would make them mutually co-dependent.
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I can't find a link to that exact clip but I recommend anyone interested to watch that documentary.

There are two other similar good segments on youtube, linked here:





Lastly, I would like to point to this quick historical observation, and wonder how the world of Novia has ended up at it's current level of technological development:

 

interesting thanks for posting