Nama:Muhamad Arifin

Kelas:XI TP1

Inventor of Electric Welding

The inventor of the electric welding machine is Prof. Elihu Thomson. He

was born in Manchester, England which later followed his parents
immigrating to the United States. He demonstrated this discovery in
1877.

He was also one of the founders of a company called the Thomson-

Houston Electric Company, which later became part of the
GeneralElectric Company, where he served as head of the Electricity
History of Welding and its Types

Since about 5000 years ago, humans have been able to

do welding. The welding process is done by connecting
metals by heating two pieces of metal until it reaches
the melting point of the metal. Then the two metals will
be stacked and then hammered to form a strong bond.
One piece of evidence found in the Valley of the
Kingdom in 1922 indicated that King Tutankhamen’s
coffin was estimated to have been made around 1360
BC by involving a welding process.

The fire to heat the metal was obtained from burning

wood or charcoal, this technique is called the forging
welding technique. But this kind of method will certainly
take a lot of time and is very impractical. For centuries,
wrought welding was used as the primary process for
joining metals without much developmen.