WELDING HISTORY

BLACK SMITHING
METAL FABRICATORS IN THE EARLY TIMES
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
ARC AND ELECTRICITY
The production of an arc between
two carbon electrodes using a battery is
credited to Sir Humphry Davy in 1800. In
the mid-19th century, the electric
generator was invented and arc lighting
became popular.
 CARBON ARC WELDING
Thi is a type of arc welding process
which produces coalescence of
metals by heating them with an arc
between a non-consumable
carbon (graphite) electrode and
the work-piece. It was the first arc-
welding process developed but is
not used for many applications
today This arc produces
temperatures in excess of
3,000 °C, at this temperature the
separated metals form a bond and
become welded together.
 OXYGEN- ACETYLENE WELDING
French engineers Edmond Fouché and Charles Picard were the first to develop
oxygen-acetylene welding in 1903. This new welding process rapidly
spread around the world and changed welding forever. The oxy-fuel
cutting process is largely unchanged since its earliest days.
METAL RIVETS
 SHIELDED METAL ARC WELDING
(S.M.A.W.)
covered or coated S.M.A.W. is an
electrode were arc welding
invented during the method that
period of 1907 to utilized a metal
1914. electrode, this
Stick electrodes process
were produced by deposits melted
dipping short electrode metal
lengths of bare iron into the weld as
wire in thick filler and joins
mixtures of the base metals
carbonates and by means of
silicates and fussion.
allowing
the coating to dry.
 GAS TUNGSTEN ARC WELDING
(G.T.A.W.)

Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) had its beginnings from an idea by C.L.
Coffin to weld in a nonoxidizing gas atmosphere, which he patented in 1890.
The concept was further refined in the late 1920s by H.M.Hobart, who used
helium for shielding, and P.K. Devers, who used argon.
 AUTOMATIC WELDING

In 1920, automatic welding was introduced. It utilized bare electrode wire

operated on direct current and used arc voltage as the basis of regulating
the feed rate. In 1929, Lincoln Electric Company produced extruded
electrode rods that were sold to the public
 SUBMERGED ARC WELDING
(S.A.W.)

The first patent on the submerged-arc welding (SAW) process was taken out
in 1935 and covered an electric arc beneath a bed of granulated flux.
Developed by the E O Paton Electric Welding Institute, Kiev, during the Second
World War, SAW's most famous application was on the T34 tank.
 GAS METAL ARC WELDING
(G.M.A.W.)

In 1948, GMAW was developed by the Battelle Memorial Institute.

It used a smaller diameter electrode and a constant voltage power
source, In 1953, the use of carbon dioxide as a welding
atmosphere was developed, and it quickly gained popularity
in GMAW, since it made welding steel more economical.
 COMPUTER AIDED WELDING
MACHINES

A computerised welding process controller is designed to handle the various

phenomena that occurs during the welding process, like the start-up sequence,
continuous welding-including parameter setting, and the termination sequence.