The Parting Shot

Author:  Jack Champaigne
Source:  The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 20 / Issue 2, Spring 2006
Doc ID:  2006017
Year of Publication:  2006
Abstract:  
What specs say about our industry Shot peening's ancestor, hammering, can be traced back as far as 2700 B.C. to a gold helmet in Mesopotamia. As city-states began to develop in ancient Mesopotamia, conflicts developed among them. Warfare often arose as the result of wealth, control of the Tigris and Euphrates for transportation and irrigation, boundary disputes, and the need to acquire luxury goods such as timber, stone and metals. The almost constant occurrence of war among the city-states of Sumer for two thousand years spurred the development of military technology and technique far beyond that found elsewhere at the time.