Through innovation, our ancient ancestors graduated from the Stone Age and into the Bronze Age that, in turn, became the Iron Age. It is no accident that major epochs in human history are named after the types of metals that civilization learned work.
As I write this, we are a year away from the presidential election of 2016, but the campaigning, debates, rhetoric and interminable media coverage have already been going on for months.
Readers of this magazine may have noted the start of a series of articles in our February issue tackling the subject of modern commercial forging as an advanced manufacturing industry.