where was the element tin found and by who?

Answer 1

Human use of tin goes back to the beginning of the bronze age. Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin. Tin has to be added tyo as copper melt to make bronze. The bronze age goes back as early as 2500 B.C in Egypt ansd the middle East. Bronze discovery and usage dates back more than a thousand years before that in Southeast Asia. (e.g. discoveries in Cambodia and Vietnam, and later China).Therefor the original dicoverer of tin and its use is lost in the mist of time. Tin is a surprisingly rare element and metallic substance. The source of tin for bronse manufacture was mainly in two areas in the middle east production. One sourse wasin South East Turkey, and the other was in South West England in the Cornwall. Yes England. The phoenicians traders sailed past Gibralter and the Mediteranian Ocean to England to trade with the ancient Britons to get it and bring it back to the Middle East. Other ancient sources of tin were in Malayan stream beds as the heavy mineral cassiterite.
(which is the heavy tin oxide.)
Bronze is stronger than previously used copper.
Disruption of the tin trading sea routes hastened the development of iron smelting and tempering, which is stronger than bronze, and eventually steel. (an alloy of iron and a small amount of carbon)..
Doc. Dan.

Answer 2

Tin was used in bronze implements as early as 3,500 BC. However the pure metal was not used until about 600 BC. Discoverer is not known.