Marlborough Foundry
Channel: Doug Johnson
Date: 2020-05-04

The Marlborough Foundry, owned and operated by four generations of the Nye family, has produced custom-made aluminum objects since 1953. The workers half-jokingly describe their job as "the world's second oldest profession" -- only slight hyperbole as metal objects were first cast in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, Thailand, and India over 5,000 years ago. Many were functional (weapons, plows, pots) but interestingly, the oldest known object is a copper frog cast in Mesopotamia in 3,200 BCE.