Continuing enhancements led to the furnace and bellows and provided, for the primary time, the power to smelt and forge gold, copper, silver, and lead – native metals present in relatively pure form in nature. The advantages of copper tools over stone, bone, and wooden tools have been quickly apparent to early people, and native copper was probably used from close to the start of Neolithic times . Eventually, the working of metals led to the discovery of alloys such as bronze and brass . The first makes use of of iron alloys similar to steel dates to round 1800 …