Welding History

A lot of skills today are looked over, and undermined. One of those skills is welding. Welding is more than just a blue collar job, and more than just sparks flying in the air. It is art. The art of joining metals and binding metals together, and requires more skill than the average person will ever know. Welding started in 1000 B.C. The history of welding begins with the discovery of shaping metals together from Copper, Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Iron, than so leading into steel. The first things welded together are thought to be golden ornaments. As time went on, the process of welding stayed the same. However in the 1700’s-1800’s when the industrial revolution occurred, forge welding began known. The process of taking metals and heating
As technology advances and new things come out all the time, not only do we need welding to keep building the new, but also repair the old. Without welding, what was done 20-40 years ago, is now a lost cause, and just sent to be bulldozed down. Not only at that, but welding plays a HUGE role in the military. We would have had no ships for war, no tanks, different weapons, no jets and planes, no cannons, less things that have helped America survive and conquer as the long periods of time move on. The military would be completely different, less intimidating, and less demanding. Welding has also given us the opportunity to advance the amount of metals and surfaces we can weld on. We can weld things like Steel, mild steel, aluminum, titanium, all sorts of surfaces that are so big on our buildings and our means of transportation. Not only all of this but we can weld under
Most people thing Fire, and water, are something that can not come together in a friendly and productive way. However, it all starts with a chamber, most refered to as the “Hyperbaric Chamber”. The habitats that are selected to be used for welding, have slight bumps in the water surface, giving the welder/welders, a slight chamber of air to work with down underwater for the equipment. There are two teams needed for an underwater welding job to get done, the welding team, which usually consists of two or three welders, and the surface team. The surface team is up their with radios, and a pump, that both communicate with the welders and divers, and also they are continuously pumping more air to them, the more air they have to work with, the more comfortable they are and also the better the work down there. The continuous fluctuation of air down in the chamber allows most of the toxic fumes to be thrown out. Without this, the welders would more than likely suffocate and die. The electrode consists of the cathode (negatively charged) and the Anthodia (Positively charged), and around the electrode is a water proofed coating. Without this type of welding, many bridges and different buildings, and docks, would have never been