Sam Smith is descended from a line of blacksmiths going back to the 13th century ... The telltale sign is hammer marks. If you use machines, it’s pretty smooth — a factory finish. Modern techniques ...

The sound of metal hitting metal is still here today because of the Prairie Blacksmiths Association ... s a lot of things that we can do that a machine just cannot do,” Russel said.

Built about a year after the original Hoover blacksmith shop in West Branch, this old barn on the Lloyd Henderson farm north of West Branch was dismantled to provide much of the material for ...

An ancient technique, famously used 2,500 years ago to make a sword for a legendary Chinese king, has now been used for a tunnel boring machine known as the “king of construction machinery”.

Blacksmiths who worked on the construction of the Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in 1902-1903. H. R. “Gus” Eilenberger is second from the right, and Sam H. Smith is on the right. Courtesy Carol ...