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the making of the arc lamp the beginning of welding through light
during this time in the 1800's Davy Humphry discovers how to make a self sustainable arc this would be the starting stone of electricity into a arc that heats up metal. -
during 1880 first solid weld
Augeste De Meritens worked in a France lab. He arc welded lead metal plates to make battery storage. This is the first sign of welding being used in a production stand point. -
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the electrode
Stanislaus Olszewski, secured a British patent in 1885 and an American patent in 1887. The patents show an early electrode holder. -
Carbon welding
C.L. Coffin of Detroit received the first U.S. patent for an arc welding process using a metal electrode. This was the first record of the metal melted from the electrode carried across the arc to deposit filler metal in the joint to make a weld. About the same time, N.G. Slavianoff, a Russian, presented the same idea of transferring metal across an arc, but to cast metal in a mold -
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The beginning of carbon welding
This was the beginning of carbon arc welding. Benardos restricted his efforts to carbon arc welding, although he was able to weld iron as well as lead. Carbon arc welding became popular during the late 1890s and early 1900s. -
the first coat
Strohmenger introduced a coated metal electrode in Great Britain. There was a thin coating of clay or lime, but it provided a more stable arc. -
the use of gas and during the war
1900, hydrogen and coal gas were used with oxygen. However, in about 1900 a torch suitable for use with low-pressure acetylene was developed. World War I brought a tremendous demand for armament production, growing the need for welding. Many companies sprang up in America and in Europe to manufacture welding machines and electrodes to meet the requirements. -
Rail Road work
In 1903, a German named Goldschmidt invented thermite welding that was first used to weld railroad rails. -
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production of stick electrodes.
Oscar Kjellberg of Sweden invented a covered or coated electrode during the period of 1907 to 1914. He produced stick electrodes by dipping short lengths of bare iron wire in thick mixtures of carbonates and silicates and allowing the coating to dry. -
stud welding
Navy Yard developed stud welding in 1930, specifically for attaching wood decking over a metal surface. Stud welding became popular in the shipbuilding and construction industries. The automatic process that became popular was the submerged arc welding process. The National Tube Company developed this under powder, or smothered arc, welding process for a pipe mill at McKeesport, Pennsylvania. -
Tig Welding
Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) had its beginnings in welding history from an idea by C.L. Coffin to weld in a nonoxidizing gas atmosphere, which he patented in 1890. H.M. Hobart and P.K. Devers further refined the concept in the late 1920s using helium and argon for shielding, respectively. This process was ideal for welding magnesium and also for welding stainless and aluminum. -
Carbon welding
In 1953, Lyubavskii and Novoshilov announced the use of welding with consumable electrodes in an atmosphere of carbon dioxide gas. The CO2 welding process immediately gained favor since it utilized equipment developed for inert gas metal arc welding but could now be used for economically welding steels. The CO2 arc is a hot arc and the larger electrode wires required fairly high currents. -
Present Day
To the modern day we still use welding and its many new machines and technics. With MIG,Stick,TIG all being the modern forms of welding used in the commercial industry.