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The Space Metal Pioneers
Twelve hundred years ago in the High Arctic, the Inuit mastered spaceborne technology by hand. All over the world, human history followed similar paths. The Stone Age featured the earliest stone tools. Then people built hot furnaces to melt copper and tin into bronze. Finally came iron, which required intense fire to extract metal from rock. Each step required wood or coal to burn. In the Arctic, trees do not grow and coal was buried deep underground. For thousands of years, the Inuit used bone, driftwood, and rock to survive.
Then the Dorset culture began making iron tools, skipping the…
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