| Welding began a lot time ago. Learn about the | | | | Britain. |
| History of Welding and how Welding got its start. | | | | · C.L. Coffin receives an American |
| When you drive your car or look at a light fixture in | | | | patent for a arc welding process. |
| the street or open your microwave, chances are that | | | | |
| there is something in any of those items that has | | | | After the 1800s many more patents and inventions |
| been welded. These products and others have been | | | | were made in order to create more ways of doing |
| a part of the process of welding for more years | | | | welding but one of the greatest needs would come |
| than you might imagine. | | | | much later during World War I because this process |
| | | | | was needed to create arms. Because of the demand |
| Welding actually started a very long time ago during | | | | welding firms became a staple of America and |
| the Middle Ages. Many artifacts have been found | | | | Europe because the war needed welding machines |
| that date back to the Bronze Age. These have been | | | | and electrodes to go with them. |
| small boxes that were welded together with what is | | | | |
| called lap joints; no one is exactly sure what these | | | | During the war people really got a chance to look at |
| were used for, but this was important to that time. | | | | how welding worked and it became a very popular |
| | | | | way of work. So much so that in 1919 the first |
| The Egyptians also made a variety of tools by | | | | American Welding Society was begun. This nonprofit |
| welding pieces of iron together. Perhaps this is where | | | | organization came directly out of through a group of |
| Maxwell's Hammer comes later? Who can say! Then | | | | men who called themselves the Wartime Welding |
| came the rise of the Middle Ages and many people | | | | Committee of the Emergency Fleet Corporation |
| there were able to use blacksmithing for iron. | | | | (Source: Miller Welds). |
| Different modifications were made along the way | | | | |
| until the welding that is used to day was developed. | | | | The 1950s and 1960s were also a significant time for |
| | | | | welding because a welding process using CO2 was |
| There were several significant inventions in the 1800s | | | | discovered and a variation of this form of welding |
| that influenced welding included here: | | | | that used inert gas became very popular in the 1960s |
| | | | | because it produced a different type of arc. |
| · The invention of acetylene by an | | | | |
| Englishman named Edmund Davy. | | | | There have been a number of improvements in the |
| · Gas welding and cutting became | | | | welding trade over these years and today the |
| known and a way to cement pieces of iron together. | | | | process has added two areas, friction and laser |
| · Arc lighting was a very popular part | | | | welding. These two have created a more specialized |
| of welding after the electric generator became | | | | field and therefore more opportunities for learning. |
| known. | | | | One interesting point about laser welding is that |
| · Arc and resistance welding become | | | | those people who use it have found that is a |
| another popular aspect of welding. | | | | tremendous heat source so it can actually weld both |
| · Nikolai N. Benardos receives a patent | | | | metal and non-metal objects. |
| for welding in 1885 and 1887 from America and | | | | |