 The oxyacetylene process

was an outgrowth of the

discovery of ‘Henry Louis
Le Chatelier’ a French
chemist ,who in 1885
showed that the
combustion of acetylene
with oxygen produced a
flame having
temperature far higher
than any gas flame
previously known.
 The commercial success of the oxyacetylene process,
however ,depended upon the availability of oxygen and
acetylene in sufficient quantities to make the process
practical
 In the early 1900`s torches of a practical type were
introduced and by 1903 the oxyacetylene process to be
used industrially
 Electric Arc first discovered by
Davy in England , in the year
1809,but the bigning of arc
welding could become possible
only with the improvement in
electric generators between 1877
and 1880, Auguste de Meritens
established arc welding process
in 1881.
 In 1889 zerener processed an
Idea which aided later on to
devolop Twin carbon arc welding
 In 1907 ,in Sweeden ,Oscar kjellberg got a patent for
covered electrodes
 In 1912 in USA strohmenger obtained another patent on
another covered electrodes and the first good welded joint
was produced
 Covered electrodes were commercialized in the year 1929
 Arc and molten pool shielding with an inert gas (co2) was
adventedby Alexander in USA in the year 1928
 The atomic hydrogen welding was developed by Langmuir
( 1921,USA)
 Stud Welding was found by martin 1918
 Electro slag welding is further development of submerged
arc welding and it came to appearance round about 1953 in
Russia
 Plasma arc welding developed by USA in the year 1953.
 Elihu Thomson ,was the
first person to demonstrate
the possibility of joining
metals by resistance
welding
 His experiment which were
completed in 1886,led to
the very expensive complex
methods which are useful
in the assembly of many
modern structures
 Today multiple electrode machines are employed in
high production units for completing hundreds of
welds in fast moving production lines
 At the present time ,welding practice is divided into
about 70% arc welding the balance divided between
resistance welding and gas welding