The earliest example of equine footwear we have is made of animal hide and dates from about 600 B.C. This primitive hoof protector looks more like a horse bootie than what we think of today as a horseshoe. It was probably stuffed with dried grass or other available natural material and tied on with hide thongs.
The spiral model is a software development process combining elements of both design and prototyping-in-stages, in an effort to combine advantages of top-down and bottom-up concepts. The spiral model was defined by Barry Boehm in his article A Spiral Model of Software Development and Enhancement from 1985. This model was not the first model to discuss iterative development, but it was the first model to explain why the iteration matters.
The slag chemistry of the process is also controlled to ensure that impurities such as silicon and phosphorus are removed from the metal. The process was developed in 1948 by Robert Durrer and commercialized in 1952â53 by Austrian VOEST and Ã¶AMG.