A blacksmith earned a bit more than a paid laborer, perhaps two to three times as much. This was typically 3 to 5 pence per day, which may not sound like much but was a living.

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Because forged iron comes out black after being heated in a coal fire.

Step one: Get an ingot or block of desired metal or iron

Step two: Heat it over fire

Step three: Hammer it into shape

Step four: Let it cool

Step five: Grind it to make smooth and sharp

Step six: Cool again, your done!

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you could probally look on google images and find LOTS of ways they dress!

Horse shoes, iron pots, metal hangers, and tools. They would sometime, during times of crisis and/or war, they would make swords, help a gunsmith make guns, and even make buttons for the uniforms, and bullets for the soldiers, and cannon to help the war effort.

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Usually, that would be the task of a locksmith. A locksmith would of course be involved in the creation of locks but also would be most qualified to make the accompanying keys (due to their specialist skills). A blacksmith would at best only be able to replicate existing keys for locks.

Because it was his specialty and he was the greek god of fire and the blacksmith of the immortals

The website "http://www.austintxgensoc.org/calculatecpi.php" calculates the consumer price index, and converts dollar amounts in a given year to the value of those dollars in another year. According to its calculations, $450.00 in 1969 would be equivalent to $2,491.65 in 2007.

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You can repair armor at lots of npcs in the medium to large cities. Look for a character that has an anvil over them when you put the cursor over them.

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Blacksmith's made anything metal. For the poorest peasant up to the grandest king, they made things for them. Nails, swords, daggers, utensils, kitchen supplies, etc. Because there were few of them, they did a lot of work but were favoured and respected. They also made very comfortable livings as one of the top guilds, mostly in cities during the Renaissance. They also had protection, because knights wouldn't be able to armor themselves with swords if their blacksmith was caught prisoner or killed.

The amount of money that a blacksmith was paid in 1790 depended on the piece they made. On average, they made anywhere between $0.25 to $50.00 depending on the work done.

Many of the methods of working with hot iron on an anvil are easier with two hands. That being said the key to being a good blacksmith is in being able to judge how hot the metal is by the colour of it. A one handed person could do this just as well as any two handed person. There are jigs and methods to hold hot steel that don't require you to use you hands. Like any good blacksmith you will make tools that enable you to do your work better and more effiently.

Horses and wagons could not have operated without blacksmiths. Blacksmiths did all the necessary repairs.

Once the Railroad Company at Baltimore and Ohio began to hurt due to the depression, wages were cut by 10% causing the Railroad Strike of 1877 to occur, preventing the flow of trains. This was the beginning of the formation of Labor Unions, and showed the power of employers. It also increased the public awareness of the grievances of railroad workers. This was the first strike that needed government intervention, which was sent by President Hayes to end it. As a result, the company passes Employees' Relief Association, which covered such things as sickness, injury from accident, and a death benefit. The company also became the first to offer a pension plan in 1884.
This may have been little success towards the Labor Unions, but such things as Homestead strike of 1892 proved there was little success. This strike started when Henry Clay Frick cut wages by 22% at the Carnegie Steel Plant. This then lead to a five-month lockout on June 30, 1892 in attempt of management defeating steelworkers. Scabs were used by the Carnegie Steel Company in order to keep the plant running, and ruin the chance of the Labor Unions gaining a victory. This strike may have been very violent, but it was well organized. Overall, this strike was unsuccessful for the Labor Unions because the workers were taken out of the steel plants. For the ones who went back to work, they were forced to sign a Yellow Dog Contract. Workers agreeing to not join Labor Unions used this contract to prevent the formation of Unions. If they got caught, they would be blacklisted and their names would be given to employers, enabling it hard for those workers to seek employment again. This prevented workers from joining Labor Unions.
As wages were being cut in other companies such as the Pullman Company, workers were beginning to become perturbed. Employees worked with Eugene Debs in the American Railroad Union, and launched a boycott, which resulted in a lockout. They also directed railroad workers to not handle any trains with Pullman cars. Railroad owners supported Pullman, and linked mail trains to Pullman cars. Federal Court then stepped in created the court case known as In re Debs. This case gave the government the right to regulate interstate commerce, and ensue actions of the Postal Service. It also gave the Federal Government power to break strikes. The government then got involved, and ended the strike giving employers a very powerful weapon to break unions.