Before modern manufacturing, tools like this made large-scale building possible. This video shows how a nail header is forged ...

From before biblical times, through the 1700s, nails were hand wrought, forged one at a time. The time consuming process made nails a valuable commodity—so much so that nails were sometimes used as a ...

Construction nails are cheap and common today, but before the Industrial Revolution, they were labor-intensive to manufacture. And while the production processes of nails have evolved over the ...