The ROCK DRILL and CIVILIZATION

Rock drilling is one of the world’s most ancient technologies—and a pre requisite for nearly all the others
THE PROGRESS OF MANKIND CAN BE MEASURED BY THE progress of mining and metallurgy. The successive historical epochs of stone, copper, bronze, iron, steel, and silicon are the steps our species has taken in the quest to control the world rather than simply survive it. Besides adding to humanity’s health and material well-being, each of these stages has created the need for an everincreasing web of laws, rules, and etiquette. The whole complex synergy that we call civilization ultimately depends on mining, and mining depends on rock drills.

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