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History of world welding

Date: 26/09/2023

Welding is a processing process and connection method that combines atoms between two workpieces by heating, pressurizing, or both. Welding is widely used for both metals and non-metals.

Development history of welding technology

Forge welding technology appeared in Egypt in 3000 BC.

In 2000 BC, the Yin Dynasty of China used casting and welding to make weapons.

1801 - H.Davy of England discovers electric arc.

1836 - Edmund Davy discovers acetylene gas.

1856 - James Joule, an English physicist, discovers the principle of resistance welding.

1959 - Deville and Debray invent hydrogen - oxygen welding.

1881: Frenchman De Meritens invents the earliest carbon arc welding machine.

1881: Dr. R. H. Thurston of the United States spent six years to complete all the experiments on the strength and extensibility of a full range of copper-zinc alloy brazing materials.

1882 - The austenitic manganese steel invented by Robert A. Hadfield of England and named after him is patented.

In 1885, Elihu Thompson, an American, patented a resistance welding machine.

1885 - Russian Benardos Olszewski develops carbon arc welding technology.

1888: Russian H. l. C. L.

1889-1890: C. L. Coffin, an American, performed the first arc welding using a light wire as an electrode.

In 1890; The American C. L. Coffin proposed the concept of welding in an oxidizing medium.

1890 - British man Brown makes the first attempt to rob a bank using oxygen and gas cutting.

1895 - Bavarian Konrad Roentgen observes X-rays produced by a stream of electrons passing through a vacuum tube.

1895 - Frenchman Le Chatelier receives a certificate for inventing the oxyacetylene flame.

1898: German Goldschmidt invented thermite welding.

1898: The German Klein. Schmidt invented arc welding of copper electrodes.

1900: Strohmyer invented the thin-coated electrode.

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In 1900, the French Fouch and Picard made the first oxy-acetylene cutting torch.

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1901 - German Menne invents oxygen spear cutting.

1904: The Swede Oscar. Kjellberg established the world's first electrode factory - ESAB's OK Electrode factory.

In 1904, Avery invented the portable steel cylinder.

1907: When demolishing the old Central railway station in New York, more than 20% of the engineering cost was saved due to the use of oxy-acetylene cutting.

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1911 - Philadelphia & Suburban Gas Company builds the first 11-mile line to be welded using oxygen solvent gas welding.

1912: The first oxy-acetylene gas welded steel pipe was put on the market.

1912 - The Edward G. Budd Company in Philadelphia produces the first all-steel automobile body welded with resistance spot welding.

Circa 1912: In order to produce the famous Model T car, the Ford Motor Company in the United States completed the modern welding process in the laboratory of its factory.

1913 - Avery and Fisher perfect acetylene cylinders in Indianapolis, USA.

1916: Ansel. The first is the invention of X-ray nondestructive testing in the welding zone.

1917: During World War I, 109 ship engines captured from Germany were repaired using arc welding, and half a million American soldiers were transported to France using these repaired ships.

1917: Webster & Southbridge Electric Company in Massachusetts used arc welding equipment to weld 11 miles of pipeline with a diameter of 3 inches.

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1919: Comfort A. dams forms the American Welding Society (AWS).

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1919 - C.J.Halslag invents AC welding.

1920 - Gerdien discovers the heat flux effect.

1920 - Fulagar, the first steamship with an all-welded hull, is launched in England.

Circa 1920: Began using arc welding to repair some valuable equipment.

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Circa 1920: The Johnson Process for welding steel pipes using resistance welding is patented.

Circa 1920: The Poughkeepsie Socony, the first oil tanker built using the welding method, is launched in the United States.

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Circa 1920: flux-cored wire is used for wear-resistant surfacing.

1922 - Prairie Pipeline Company successfully completes the laying of an 8-inch diameter, 140-mile crude oil pipeline from Mexico to Texas using oxy-acetylene welding technology.

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1923: Stody invents surfacing welding.

1923: The world's first floating roof storage tank (used to store gasoline or other chemicals) is built; Its advantage is that the tank can be raised or lowered like a telescope by a welded floating roof and tank wall, so that the volume of the tank can be easily changed.

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1924: Magnolia Gas Company builds 14 miles of all-welded natural gas line using oxy-acetylene welding technology.

1924: H.H. ester was the first in the United States to use X-ray photography to test the quality of castings to be installed at a steam pressure of 8.3Mpa for the Boston Edison power plant.

1926: American Langmuir invented atomic hydrogen welding.

1926: Alexandre invented the principle of CO2 gas shielded welding.

1926: A.O.Smih company in the United States took the lead in introducing the production method of applying a protective solid coating (that is, manual arc welding electrode) on the metal electrode for arc welding.

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1926: Chromium-tungsten-cobalt alloy receives the first patent for flux-cored wire.

1926: Americans M. Hoart and P.K. evers obtain a patent for the use of helium as an arc protection gas.

1927: Lindberg successfully flew the Ryan monoplane over the Atlantic Ocean, with a fuselage made of welded steel tubes.

1928: The first structural steel welding code, Code for Fusion Welding and Gas Cutting in Building Structures, is published by the American Welding Society, which is the predecessor of today's D1.1 Structural Steel Welding Code.

1930: The Georgia Railroad Center uses a continuous welding method to lay the railroad in two tunnels. The welded track was put into use two years later when the line was through.

1930: The former Soviet Union Robinov invented submerged arc welding.

1931 - The Empire State Building is built with a welded all-steel structure.

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1933: The first joint welded using the arc welding process was laid with a long transmission line with no liner construction.

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1933 - San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, then the highest suspension bridge in the world, opens to traffic, made of 87,750 tons of welded steel.

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1934 - Barton Welding Institute is established.

Barton Institute founder Yevkin Oskalovich Barton

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The largest welded iron bridge over the River Deniebe in Europe - Barton Bridge

1934: The Unheated pressure Vessel Code is published by the API - ASME collaboration.

1935: Linde Air Products of the United States perfected the submerged arc welding technology.

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1936: Wasserman invented low temperature brazing.

1939: American Reinecke invented the ion flow spray gun.

1940 - Exchequer, the first all-welded ship, is launched at Ingalls Shipyard in the United States.

1941: American Meredith invented tungsten inert gas shielded arc welding (helium arc welding).

1941: During World War II, ships, aircraft, tanks and various heavy weapons were manufactured using a large number of welding techniques.

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1943: Behl invented ultrasonic welding.

1943: Aircraft builders first welded the hollow blades of aircraft steel propellers using atomic hydrogen welding, submerged arc welding, and MIG welding.

1944: British Carl invented explosive welding.

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1947: The invention of electroslag welding in the former Soviet Union by Bopo Noebech (Voroshevich).

1949 - The first FORD car with an all-welded structure made using arc and resistance welding processes rolls off the assembly line.

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In 1950, Americans Muller, Gibson and Anderson obtained the first patent for the excessive welding of MIG.

1950 - German F. B. uhorn discovers plasma arcs.

Circa 1950: Electroslag welding is first used in production in the former Soviet Union.

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1953: Hunt invented cold pressure welding.

1953: The former Soviet Union Lyupovsky, Japan Sekiguchi and others invented CO2 gas shielded arc welding.

1954: Self-protecting flux-cored wire was put into production at Lincoln Electric Company in the United States.

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1954 - The Nautilus, the first welded nuclear submarine, enters service with the U.S. Navy.

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1954: Benard invents the tubular electrode.

1955: Thom, USA. Claverd invents high-frequency induction welding.

1956: Harbin Welding Research Institute was established in China.

1956: The former Soviet Union Chudikov invented friction welding technology.

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1957: The invention of electron beam welding by Schgill in France.

1957: The former Soviet Union Kazakov invented diffusion welding.

1957: "Welding" is published, which is the first professional welding magazine in China.

Circa 1957: The United States, the United Kingdom, and the former Soviet Union all used CO2 as a protective gas in the process of short circuit welding.

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1960: Airco of the United States introduced the metal pulse gas welding process.

1962: The patent for gas welding was granted to the Belgian Arcos.

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1962 - Electron beam welding is first used on supersonic aircraft and B-70 bombers.

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1964: The patent for the hot wire welding method and the coordinated control of the MIG welding method is granted to the American Manz.

1965 - The welded Appllo 10 spacecraft successfully landed on the moon.

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1967: Arada invented continuous laser welding.

In 1967, the world's first submarine pipeline was successfully laid in the Gulf of Mexico, which was manufactured by the Krank Pilia company of the United States using the thermal thread process and welding process.

1968: Welded 22 floors above the John Hancock Center in Chicago to create the world's tallest sharp-angled steel structure at 1,107 feet.

1969: Linde Company of the United States proposed the hot wire plasma arc spraying process.

1970: Thyristor inverter welding machine came out.

1976: Arada invented series electron beam welding.

Around 1980: Semiconductor circuits and computer circuits are widely used to control welding and cutting processes.

Circa 1980: Use steam brazing to weld printed circuit boards.

1983: The circular top of the 160-foot diameter flap structure on the space shuttle was welded using the submerged arc and shielded welding method and inspected using a radiographic flaw detector.

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1988: Welding robots began to be widely used in automobile production lines.

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Around 1990: Inverter technology has been greatly developed, and the result is a reduction in the weight and size of welding equipment.

1991: The British Welding Institute invented friction stir welding and successfully welded aluminum alloy plates.

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1993: The United States Army Abrams main battle Tank was successfully welded using a robot-controlled CO2 laser.

1996: A research group of more than 30 people headed by B.K.Lebegev, academician of the Barton Welding Institute in Ukraine, researched and developed the welding technology of human tissue.

2001: Human tissue welding was successfully applied in clinic.

2002: Welding of the Three Gorges Turbine is completed, the largest turbine in the world that has been built and is currently under construction.

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1985:Huarui was established

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