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Blacksmith's bellows

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Creator
Emily Jack
Date created
October 27, 2007
Location
Fort Dobbs, North Carolina
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Photograph of a blacksmith pulling a wooden lever to operate a large bellows.

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At an eighteenth-century living history event at Fort Dobbs, North Carolina, a blacksmith pulls a wooden lever to operate a large bellows. Blacksmiths needed very hot fires to make their iron soft and pliable. A bellows was used to add air to a fire, making it hotter.