World welding development history

Over 3000 BC, forging and welding technology emerged in Egypt.

Over 2000 BC, the Yin Dynasty in China used casting and welding to manufacture weapons.

Before 200 BC, China had already mastered the brazing process of bronze and the forging and welding process of iron tools.

1801: British H Davy discovered an arc.

1836: Edmund Davy discovered acetylene gas.

In 1856, English physicist James Joule discovered the principle of resistance welding.

In 1959, Deville and Debray invented hydrogen oxygen gas welding.

In 1881, the Frenchman De Meritens invented the earliest carbon arc welding machine.

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

In 1882, Robert A. Hadfield, an Englishman, invented and named austenitic manganese steel and obtained a patent.

In 1885, American Elihu Thompson obtained a patent for a resistance welding machine.

In 1885, Russian Benardos Olszewski developed carbon arc welding technology.

1888: Russian H г. C лавянов  Invention of metal electrode arc welding.

1889-1890: American C L. Coffin used light welding wire as electrode for arc welding for the first time.

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

In 1895, Bavarian Konrad Roentgen observed the phenomenon of X-rays produced by a beam of electrons passing through a vacuum tube.

In 1895, the Frenchman Le Chatelier obtained a certificate for the invention of the oxyacetylene flame.

In 1898, German Goldschmidt invented aluminothermal welding.

In 1898, German Klebsiella Schmidt invented copper electrode arc welding.

In 1900, the British Strohmyer invented thin coated welding rods.

In 1900, French people Fouch and Picard created the first oxyacetylene cutting torch.

In 1901, German Menne invented the oxygen spear cutting.

In 1904, Swedish Oscar Kjelberg established the world's first welding rod factory - ESAB's OK welding rod factory.

In 1904, Avery, an American, invented portable steel cylinders.

In 1907, when demolishing the old Central Railway Station in New York, USA, the use of oxyacetylene cutting saved over 20% of the project cost.

1907: October Swedish O Kjellberg has improved thick coated welding rods.

In 1909, Schonher invented the plasma arc.

In 1911, Philadelphia&Suburban Gas Company built the first 11 mile long pipeline using oxygen solvent gas welding.

In 1912, the first oxygen acetylene gas welded steel pipe was put into the market.

In 1912, Edward G. Budd, located in Philadelphia, USA, produced the first all steel car body using resistance spot welding.

Around 1912: In order to produce the famous T-shaped car, Ford Motor Company completed modern welding processes in its own factory laboratory.

In 1913, Avery and Fisher perfected acetylene cylinders in Indianapolis, USA.

In 1916, Ansel Xiante Yue invented the X-ray non-destructive testing method for welding areas.

In 1917, during World War I, 109 ship engines seized from Germany were repaired using arc welding, and these repaired ships were used to transport 500000 American soldiers to France.

In 1917, Webster&Southbridge Electric Company, located in Massachusetts, USA, used arc welding equipment to weld an 11 mile long, 3-inch diameter pipeline.

In 1919, Comfort A. Adams established the American Welding Society (AWS).

Commemorative photos during the 1924 American Welding Society event

1919: C J. Halslag invented AC welding.

1920: Gerdien discovered the thermal effect of plasma flow.

In 1920, the first fully welded steamship, the Fulagar, was launched in England.

Around 1920: began using arc welding to repair some valuable equipment.

Around 1920: The Johnson Process, which uses resistance welding to produce steel pipes, was patented.

Around 1920: The first oil tanker, the Poughkeepsie Socony, manufactured using welding methods, was launched in the United States.

Around 1920: Flux cored welding wire was used for wear-resistant overlay welding.

In 1922, Prairie Pipeline Company successfully laid an 8-inch diameter, 140 mile crude oil pipeline from Mexico to Texas using oxygen acetylene welding technology.

In 1923, Stody invented overlay welding.

In 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, making it easy to change the volume of the tank.

In 1924, Magnolia Gas Company built a 14 mile long fully welded natural gas pipeline using oxygen acetylene welding technology.

In 1924, in the United States, H H. Lester first used X-ray photography to inspect the quality of castings to be installed at Boston Edison's power plant with a steam pressure of 8.3Mpa.

In 1926, Langmuir of the United States invented atomic hydrogen welding.

In 1926, Alexandre of the United States invented the principle of CO2 gas shielded welding.

In 1926, A. from the United States O. Smith Company was the first to introduce the production method of applying a solid coating (i.e. manual arc welding electrode) with a protective effect on the metal electrode used for arc welding by extrusion.

In 1926, the chromium tungsten cobalt welding alloy obtained the first patent for flux cored welding wire.

1926: American M Hobart and P.K. Devers have obtained a patent for using helium gas as arc protection gas.

In 1927, Lindberg successfully flew the Ryan monoplane over the Atlantic Ocean, with the fuselage made up of fully welded alloy steel pipes.

In 1928, the first Structural Steel Welding Code, "Rules for Fusion Welding and Gas Cutting in Building Structures," was published and distributed by the American Welding Society. This code is the predecessor of today's D1.1 Structural Steel Welding Code.

In 1930, the Georgia Railway Center adopted a continuous welding method to lay railways in two tunnels. The welded track will be put into use when the line is connected two years later.

1930: Robinov of the former Soviet Union invented submerged arc welding.

In 1931, the Empire State Building, consisting of an all steel structure manufactured by welding technology, was completed.

In 1933, the first joint welded using arc welding technology was laid on a long-distance pipeline without a lining structure.

In 1933, the highest suspension bridge in the world, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, was completed and opened to traffic. It was made of 87750 tons of steel welded together.

In 1934, the Barton Welding Institute was established.

Yevkin Oskarovich Barton, founder of Barton Institute

Barton Bridge, the largest fully welded iron bridge over the Dnieper River in Europe

In 1934, the code for non heated pressure vessels was published in collaboration with API ASME.

In 1935, Linde Air Products in the United States improved its submerged arc welding technology.

In 1936, Wasserman of Switzerland invented low-temperature brazing.

In 1939, Reinecke of the United States invented the plasma jet gun.

In 1940, the first fully welded ship, the Exchequer, was built and launched at Ingalls Shipyard in the United States.

In 1941, American Meredith invented tungsten inert gas arc welding (helium arc welding).

In 1941, during World War II, a large amount of welding technology was used in the manufacturing of ships, airplanes, tanks, and various heavy weapons.

In 1943, Behl of the United States invented ultrasonic welding.

In 1943, aircraft manufacturers first used atomic hydrogen welding, submerged arc welding, and metal arc welding to weld hollow blades of aircraft steel propellers.

In 1944, Carl from England invented explosive welding.

1947: Bopo, former Soviet Union ш E вич Voroshevich invented electric slag welding.

In 1949, the first Ford brand car with a fully welded structure manufactured using arc welding and resistance welding processes was taken offline.

In 1950, Muller, Gibson, and Anderson, an American, obtained the first patent for excessive spraying in gas shielded metal arc welding.

1950: Germany F Buhorn discovered a plasma arc.

Around 1950: Electroslag welding was first used in production in the former Soviet Union.

In 1953, Hunt invented cold press welding in the United States.

In 1953, the Soviet Union's Ryubovsky and Japan's Kanto invented CO2 gas shielded arc welding.

In 1954, self-protection flux cored welding wire was put into production at Lincoln Electric Company in the United States.

In 1954, the first nuclear submarine manufactured using welding technology, The Nautilus, began service with the United States Navy.

In 1954, Bernard invented tubular welding rods.

In 1955, Tom Crawford of the United States invented high-frequency induction welding.

In 1956, China established the Harbin Welding Research Institute

In 1956, Chudikov of the former Soviet Union invented friction welding technology

In 1957, Schr ö ger of France invented electron beam welding.

In 1957, Kazakov of the former Soviet Union invented diffusion welding.

In 1957, Welding was founded, which was the first welding professional magazine in China.

Around 1957: The United States, United Kingdom, and former Soviet Union all used CO2 as a shielding gas in the short circuit transition process of metal arc welding.

In 1960, Maiman in the United States discovered lasers, which have now been widely used in the welding field.

In 1960, Airco in the United States introduced the melt electrode pulse gas shielded welding process.

In 1962, the patent for gas electric vertical welding was granted to Arcos, a Belgian.

In 1962, electron beam welding was first officially used on supersonic aircraft and B-70 bombers.

In 1964, patents for the hot wire welding method and the coordinated control melting electrode gas shielded welding method were granted to Manz, an American.

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

In 1967, Arada of Japan invented continuous laser welding.

In 1967, the world's first underwater pipeline was successfully laid in the Gulf of Mexico. It was manufactured by Krank Pilia in the United States using hot threading and welding processes.

In 1968, over 22 floors of the John Hancock Center in Chicago were welded together to form the world's tallest sharp angle steel structure, reaching a height of 1107 feet.

In 1969, Linde Company in the United States proposed the hot wire plasma arc spraying process.

In 1970, thyristor inverter welding machines were introduced.

In 1976, Arada of Japan invented series electron beam welding.

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

Around 1980: Using steam brazing to solder printed circuit boards.

In 1983, the circular top of the 160 foot diameter petal structure on the space shuttle was welded using submerged arc welding and gas shielded welding methods and inspected using a radiographic inspection machine.

In 1984, Soviet female astronaut Svetlana Savitskaya conducted welding experiments in space.

In 1988, welding robots began to be widely used in automotive production lines.

Around 1990, inverter technology made significant progress, resulting in a significant decrease in the weight and size of welding equipment.

In 1991, the British Welding Institute invented friction stir welding and successfully welded aluminum alloy plates.

In 1993, a robot controlled CO2 laser was successfully used to weld the US Army Abrams main battle tank.

In 1996, at the Barton Welding Institute in Ukraine B K. A research and development team led by Academician Lebegev, consisting of over thirty people, has developed welding techniques for human tissues.

In 2001, human tissue welding was successfully applied in clinical practice.

In 2002, the welding of the Three Gorges turbine was completed, making it the world's largest turbine that has been built and is currently under construction.