Steam hammer

The steam hammer was invented around 1837 by James Nasmyth in Manchester, England. Its first use was intended to be the forging of the paddle shaft of the SS Great Britain. However, the paddle technology was replaced with the screw propeller, and implementation of the hammer was left to the Creuzot[?] foundry of France.

The steam hammer was one of many machine tools[?] invented around this time which allowed for large scale industrialisation and the use of machines to build machines.