It can be said that human beings have been using stone for a long time. More than 500,000 years ago, Peking Man knew to use stone as a tool to process other stones, to make tools to hunt, repair caves and maintain daily life. Stone can be said to be an ancient stone processing tool. Human beings have created Stonehenge in ancient times, Parthenon in ancient Greece, Colosseum in ancient Rome, pyramids in ancient Egypt, Great Wall in China and so on with ancient, unwieldy primitive tools. However, at the beginning, human stone processing is mostly manual and a small number of simple hand tools and animal force, even when the industrialization of modern Europe has started, such as Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Cologne Cathedral, Vatican Cathedral and other buildings built entirely with stone, still so. Although gunpowder was already in common use, it only served to separate rocks from mountains. The mining and processing of stone by human, animal and simple tools lasted for a long time. During the creation of a lot of brilliant, brilliant stone architecture and art.
In China, there are the Forbidden City, Zhaozhou Bridge in Hebei Province, the Buddhist Dunhuang Grottoes and Yungang Grottoes; In foreign countries there are Egyptian pyramids, Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Leaning Tower of Pisa. Venice water City, etc. Today, in the early development of stone industry and rich Carrara white marble in Italy for hundreds of miles of Carrara mine, people in memory of the past with simple or even simple equipment and tools to hard mining stone, creating for future generations to be proud of the architecture and art people, Specially in the mountains where Carrara white marble is produced, a historical museum of stone mining and processing, the only one in the world, was built for posterity to visit. Due to the backwardness of stone mining, stone processing and stone tools, stone has been allowed to play the role of structural material and basic material in building materials for a long period of time. This limits people's understanding and use of stone decoration properties to a certain extent.
Only in modern times when people have a qualitative leap in the development of stone machinery, the stone decoration, Pei repair function has been rapidly developed, the natural stone beauty, natural, texture, rhythm to show and use, make people have a new understanding of the natural stone and later development of artificial stone decoration performance, stone only really, thoroughly from only structural materials. The role of basic materials has shifted to that of decorative materials. This change makes the economic value of stone, aesthetic value, design concept, decoration form, scope of use have taken place qualitative change.
In a certain sense, without the technological progress of stone machinery, there would be no transformation of stone use function, and there would be no modern decorative stone industry. Modern stone enterprises can also be said to be modern decorative stone machinery industry, it from stone mining to stone maintenance. The renovations were made with machinery, tools and auxiliary materials. In terms of processing technology, it covers cutting, milling, drilling, profiling and other technologies. Disciplines and industries involved include physics, chemistry, metallurgy, machinery, chemical industry, building materials, construction, textile, light industry, etc. Therefore, modern stone machine maple is the result of multidisciplinary development.
