Elihu Thomson and The Resistance Welding

Welding is a very good job to choose to be a career. Welding is jointing of two or more materials through heat or heat and pressure forming a bond between them. Welding is very interesting because it is all over the world. The cars you drive, the desk the student sit in, the gun people shoot in the war, and the buildings we are in are welded on so it can stay together. Welding has different positions as a job.

When the Industrial Revolution began around 1750 AD a process known as forge welding was used. It’s a very simple process that takes two or more pieces of metal and the joint areas are heated. When the metal is hot enough you simply hammer them together until they fuse. This all worked well enough until 1886. In1886 an inventor who was awarded over 700 patents by the name of Elihu Thomson came up with resistance welding. He was someone whom the modern world should be thankful to! Not only did he make resistance welding possible, but we still benefit from many of his other electrical inventions. This was the start of the modern welding age sparking inventor’s minds on how to join metals in different ways. This was the beginning of the end for the mass use of rivets, screws, and bolts to join metals. What many people don’t know is how important these new welding processes were to the military at the time. At the end of the First World War new welding techniques were a closely guarded secret to the ship repair industry. Even today the welding technology used by military contractors and the new alloys produced are a closely guarded secret. It is a simple process that the industrial revolution needed and without it many of the things we take for granted would not be here! Welding is a major need for most manufacturing industrie...

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...nother material to so. Welding is more efficient and versatile, and it produces a stronger product than other methods because it joins together the original pieces, so that the finish work is as strong as the original materials. And that is the welding career.

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