Electronics Incorporated - The Shot Peener - Shot Peening Library
Title: The Parting Shot
Author: Jack Champaigne
Source: TSP, Vol 20 / Issue 2, Spring 2006
Publication year 2006
Document number: 2006017
Number of pages: 1
Abstract:
What specs say about our industry
Shot peening's ancestor, hammering, can be traced back as far as 2700 B.C. to a gold helmet in Mesopotamia. As city-states began to develop in ancient Mesopotamia, conflicts
developed among them. Warfare often arose as the result of wealth, control of the Tigris and Euphrates for transportation and irrigation, boundary disputes, and the need to
acquire luxury goods such as timber, stone and metals. The almost constant occurrence of war among the city-states of Sumer for two thousand years spurred the development of
military technology and technique far beyond that found elsewhere at the time.
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