Did you know? 5 Interesting Facts about Steel Fabrication

Have you played a role playing video game? If so, you are familiar with a character type of Blacksmith? Yeah! I love being a blacksmith in an rpg game.  Did you know that Blacksmiths really exist in modern day? Yes they are and their modern name is Metal Fabricators.

Just like in an rpg game, Metal Fabricators do very cool things. Here I list 5 interesting facts about metal fabricators and their steel fabrication projects back in history.

Did you know that?

1. The first fabricators are the ancient Egyptians, approximately around 4000 BC when they learned how to bend and shape gold to fashion jewelry. This is the earliest form of metal fabrication written in history.
2. During the building of Sydney Harbor Bridge (1924-1932) over 4000 riggers, painters, laborers and blacksmiths were employed and surprisingly, there were no welders. Why is that? Because at this time welding was still in its infancy and therefore no welding carried out. How the bridge was then built? Simply, 6 million steel rivets held the bridge together.
3. In 1889, Eiffel Tower was built and contains 18,038 pieces or wrought iron. All of which had to be fabricated and held in place by over 2 million rivets
4. The world’s tallest building – The Burj Khalifa – uses just over a half the amount of steel that is contained in the Empire State Building, yet at its height of 828m, Burj Khalifa is 385m taller!
5. Over 50% of all products that are available require either some form of fabrication or some work of welding.  The computer you are currently using to read this post, the table your pc lays, the chair you are sitting on are some examples, as well as the boats, bridges, cars, air crafts, mobile phones, properties and a lot more.

Wow! These things are amazing. Give credit to steel fabricators. Without their skills and expertise, I don’t think we have these amazing structures. Thanks to their effort and dedication.  The metal fabrication technology is definitely growing as the years passed by. Can you imagine what we have in the future if they continue to improve this?

Really amazing! Clap clap for Steel Fabricators!

This article is made possible by: TKL Hardware and Construction.