History of world welding development
forging and welding technology appeared in Egypt over 3000 BC
in the Yin Dynasty of China over 2000 BC, weapons were made by casting and welding
before 200 BC, China had mastered the brazing of bronze and the forging and welding of iron
1801: Arc was discovered in vy, England
1836: Edmund Davy discovered acetylene gas
1856: James Joule, an English physicist, discovered the principle of resistance welding
1859: Deville and Debray invented oxyhydrogen gas welding
1881: de meritens, a Frenchman, invented the earliest carbon arc welding machine
In 1881, Dr. R. h. Thurston of the United States spent six years to complete all experiments on the strength and elongation of a full series of copper zinc alloy solders1882: Robert A. Hadfield, an Englishman, invented and named austenitic manganese steel and obtained a patent right
1885: American Elihu Thompson obtained the patent right of resistance welding machine
1885: Russian benardosolszewski developed carbon arc welding technology1888: Russian H г. C лавянов Invention of metal electrode arc welding
1889-1890: American C. L. coffin first used welding wire as electrode for arc welding
1890; American C. L. coffin put forward the concept of welding in oxidizing medium
1890: Brown, an Englishman, made the first attempt to rob a bank by cutting with oxygen and gas
1895: Konrad roentgen, a Bavarian, observed the X-ray phenomenon when an electron stream passed through a vacuum tube
1895: Le Chatelier, a Frenchman, obtained the certificate of inventing oxyacetylene flame
1898: German Goldschmidt invented thermit welding
1898: Klebsiella germanica Schmidt invented copper electrode arc welding1900: British strohmyer invented thin coated electrode
1900: the French fo took the initiative to initiate the system development. Uch and Picard manufactured the first oxyacetylene cutting torch
1901: German menne invented oxygen lance cutting
1904: Swedish Oscar Kegelberg has established the world's first welding electrode plant - OK electrode plant of ESAB company
1904: American avery invented portable steel cylinder
In 1907, when the old central railway station was demolished in New York, America, more than 20% of the engineering cost was saved due to the use of oxyacetylene cutting1907: in October, o. kjellberg, a Swede, perfected the thick coated electrode
1909: Schonherr invented plasma arc
manual plasma arc cutting
underwater plasma cutting
1911: the first 11 mile long pipeline welded by oxygen solvent gas welding was built by Philadelphia & suburban gas company
In 1912, the first oxyacetylene gas welded steel pipe was put into the market1912: Edward g. Budd company in Philadelphia, USA produced the first all steel automobile body welded by resistance spot welding
about 1912: in order to produce the famous model T automobile, Ford Motor Company completed the modern welding process in the laboratory of its own factory
1913: Avery and Fisher perfected acetylene cylinders in Indianapolis, USA
1916: Ansel Zehnder About invented the X-ray nondestructive testing method for welding area
In 1917, 109 marine engines captured from Germany were repaired by arc welding during World War I, and 500000 American soldiers were transported to France by these repaired ships1917: Webster & Southbridge electric company, located in Massachusetts, USA, used electric arc welding equipment to weld 11 mile long pipelines with a diameter of 3 inches, including digital display universal experimental machine, microcomputer screen display hydraulic machine universal experimental machine, microcomputer controlled hydraulic servo Electromechanical Universal experimental machine, etc
1919: comfort AMS established the American Welding Society (AWS)
1924 American Welding Association commemorative photo
1919: lslag invented AC welding
1920: gerdien discovered the thermal effect of plasma flow
1920: the first fully welded hull steamboat, fulagar, was launched in Britain
about 1920: began to use arc welding to repair some valuable equipment
about 1920: the Johnson process, which uses resistance welding to weld steel pipes, was patented
circa 1920: the first oil tanker, Poughkeepsie SOCONY, built by welding, was launched in the United States
circa 1920: flux cored wires were used for hardfacing
1922: Prairie pipeline company successfully completed the laying of an 8-inch diameter and 140 mile long crude oil transmission pipeline from Mexico to Dexas by using oxyacetylene welding technology
1923: Stody invented surfacing
1923: the world's first floating roof storage tank (used to store gasoline or other chemicals) was built; Its advantage is that the welded floating roof and tank wall form a tank that can be raised or lowered like a telescope, so that the volume of the tank can be easily changed
1924: Magnolia gas company built a 14 mile long natural gas pipeline with full welding structure using oxyacetylene welding technology
1924: ster first used X-ray photography in the United States to inspect the quality of castings to be installed with steam pressure of 8.3mpa for the power plant of Boston Edison Company
1926: American Langmuir invented atomic hydrogen welding
1926: Alexandre invented the principle of CO2 gas shielded welding
In 1926, the American ith company took the lead in introducing the manufacturing method of applying protective solid outside the metal electrode for arc welding by extrusion to further improve the manufacturing innovation system coating (i.e. manual arc welding electrode) with enterprise as the main body, market as the guide and the combination of production, study, research and application1926: chromium tungsten cobalt welding material alloy obtained the first patent on flux cored wire
1926: American Bart and vers obtained the patent of using helium as arc shielding gas
1927: Lindberg successfully flew Ryan monoplane over the Atlantic Ocean alone. The fuselage of the aircraft is composed of all welded alloy steel pipe structure
1928: the first structural steel welding code, rules for fusion welding and gas cutting in building structures, was published by the American Welding Society. This code is the predecessor of today's D1.1 structural steel welding code
1930: the Georgia railway center adopted the method of continuous welding in order to lay the railway in two tunnels. The welded track will be put into use when the line is completed two years later
1930: robinov of the former Soviet Union invented submerged arc welding
1931: the Empire State building composed of all steel structures manufactured by welding process was completed
1933: the first joint welded by electric arc welding process was paved with long-distance transmission pipeline without liner structure
1933: the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the highest suspension bridge in the world at that time, was completed and opened to traffic. It was welded and assembled from 87750 tons of steel
1934: Barton Welding Institute was established
founder of Barton Institute yefkin oscarovich Barton
Barton bridge, the largest all welded iron bridge on the dnieb River in Europe
1934: the code for non heated pressure vessels was jointly published by API and ASME
1935: Linde air products of the United States perfected the submerged arc welding technology
application of submerged arc welding in shipbuilding
1936: Wasserman, Switzerland invented low temperature brazing
1939: American Reinecke invented plasma flow spray gun
1940: the first all welded ship, exchequer, was completed and launched at the Ingalls dock in the United States
1941: American Meredith invented tungsten inert gas arc welding (helium arc welding)
1941: during World War II, a large number of welding technologies were used in the manufacture of ships, aircraft, tanks and various heavy weapons
1943: American Behl invented ultrasonic welding
1943: the makers of aircraft first used atomic hydrogen welding, submerged arc welding and MIG welding to weld the hollow blades of Aircraft Steel propellers1944: British Carl invented explosive welding
1947: bopo, former Soviet Union ш e вич (vorosevic) invented electroslag welding
1949: the first Ford brand automobile with full welding structure manufactured by arc welding and resistance welding process came off the production line
1950: Muller, Gibson and Anderson of the United States obtained the first patent for excessive spray in GMAW
1950: plasma arc was discovered in horn, Germany
About 1950: electroslag welding was first used for production in the former Soviet Union1953: American hunt invented cold pressure welding 1953: the former Soviet Union lyubowski, Japan, and others invented CO2 gas shielded arc welding 1954: self shielded flux cored wire was put into production in Lincoln Electric Company welding workers are using self shielded flux cored wire to weld high-rise buildings 1954: the Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine manufactured by welding process, began service for the U.S. Navy
1955: American Tom Kraft invented high frequency induction welding
In 1956, China established Harbin Welding Research Institute. In 1956, chudikov of the former Soviet Union invented friction welding technologythe earliest friction welding equipment in China
1957: electron beam welding was invented by schgill, France
1957: diffusion welding was invented by karzakov of the former Soviet Union
1957: welding was first published in China
about 1957: the United States, Britain and the former Soviet Union used CO2 as the shielding gas in the short-circuit transition process of MIG welding
1960: Maiman discovered laser in the United States. Now laser has been widely used in welding field
laser robot is used to cut car doors
1960: airco of the United States introduced the pulsed gas metal arc welding process
1962: the patent for gas electric vertical welding was granted to Belgian Arcos
In 1962, electron beam welding was first officially used in supersonic aircraft and B-70 bomber1964: the patent right of hot wire welding method and coordinated control of GMAW method was granted to Manz, an American
1965: the welded APPLLO 10 spacecraft successfully landed on the moon
1967: continuous laser welding was invented by arada, Japan
1967: the world's first submarine pipeline was successfully laid in the Gulf of Mexico. It was manufactured by krank pilia company of the United States using hot threading process and welding process
1968: the world's highest acute angle steel structure was welded over 22 floors at the John Hancock center in Chicago, with a height of 1107 feet
1969: Linde company of the United States proposed the hot wire plasma arc spraying process
1970: thyristor inverter welding machine came out
1976: Japanese arada invented series electron beam welding
Around 1980: semiconductor circuits and computer circuits are widely used to control welding and cutting processes1980: use steam brazing to weld printed circuit boards
1983: the circular top of the petal structure with a diameter of 160 feet on the space shuttle was welded by submerged arc welding and gas shielded welding, and inspected by a radiographic detector
1984: former Soviet women