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Kahra Fishburn
Chanse Starmer
ENGR45, Fall 2013, SRJC
3200 B.C. A copper frog, 1455 Dillenburg Castle in
the oldest known casting in Germany is the first to use
existence, is cast in cast iron pipe to transport
Mesopotamia. water
2000 B.C. Iron is 1709 Englishman Abraham
discovered. Darby creates the first true
645 B.C. Earliest known foundry flask for sand and
sand casting (Chinese) loam casting.
1809 Centrifugal casting is
developed by A. G.
Eckhardt of Soho, England.
1825 Aluminum, the most 1960s Compactibility and
common metal in the methylene blue clay tests
earth's crust, is isolated. are developed for green
1897 Investment casting is sand control. Also
rediscovered by B.F. developed at this time are
Philbrook of Iowa. He uses high-pressure molding
it to cast dental inlays processes and fast-setting
no bake binders for sand.
Casting has been used by every major civilization
throughout history
Most casting was used for weapons making and art
Some of the most famous castings are the Greek and
Roman era bronze statues (most of the famous ones
you know are marble copies of their bronze originals)
Most of these statues have been lost. Very few remain
today because they were melted down for their metal
during the major wars of history
• A bronze Cast statue of a She-Wolf suckling Romulus
and Remus (the mythical founders of Rome)
Definition: an object made by shaping molten
metal or similar material in a mold.