History of the development of welding in the world: Forge welding technology appeared in Egypt in more than 3000 BC. In more than 2000 BC, China's Yin Dynasty used casting and welding to make weapons. Before 200 BC, China had mastered the techniques of bronze brazing and iron forging. 1801: British H.Davy discovered electric arc. 1836: Edmund Davy discovers acetylene gas. 1856: English physicist James Joule discovered the principle of resistance welding. 1959: Deville and Debray invented hydrogen-oxygen welding. 1881: Frenchman De Meritens invented the earliest carbon arc welding machine. 1881: Dr. R. H. Thurston of the United States spent six years completing all experiments on the strength and ductility of a full range of copper-zinc alloy solders. 1882: The austenitic manganese steel invented by Englishman Robert A. Hadfield and named after him was patented. 1885: American Elihu Thompson obtained the patent for the resistance welding machine. 1885: Russian Benardos Olszewski developed carbon arc welding technology. 1888: Russian H.г.Cлавянов invented metal arc welding. 1889-1890: American C. L. Coffin used light welding wire as an electrode for arc welding for the first time. 1890; American C. L. Coffin proposed the concept of welding in oxidizing media. 1890: Englishman Brown attempted the first bank robbery using oxygen and gas cutting. 1895: Bavarian Konrad Roentgen observed the phenomenon of X-rays being produced when a beam of electrons passed through a vacuum tube. 1895: Frenchman Le Chatelier receives a certificate for the invention of the oxyacetylene flame. 1898: German Goldschmidt invented thermite welding. 1898: German Kleebler Schmidt invented copper electrode arc welding. 1900: The British Strohmyer invented the thin-skin coated welding rod. 1900: Frenchmen Fouch and Picard create the first oxyacetylene cutting torch. 1901: German Menne invented oxygen spear cutting. 1904: Swedish Oscar Kjellberg established the world's first welding rod factory - ESAB's OK Welding Rod Factory. 1904: American Avery invented the portable cylinder. 1907: When demolishing the old Central Railway Station in New York, the United States, the use of oxyacetylene cutting saved more than 20% of the project cost. 1907: October Swedish O. Kjellberg perfected the thick-coated welding rod. 1909: Schonherr invented the plasma arc. 1911: The first 11-mile pipeline welded using oxygen solvent gas welding was built by the Philadelphia & Suburban Gas Company. 1912: The first oxyacetylene gas welded steel pipe was put on the market. 1912: The Edward G. Budd Company in Philadelphia, USA, produced the first all-steel automobile body using resistance spot welding. About 1912: In order to produce the famous Model T car, the American Ford Motor Company completed modern welding processes in the laboratory of its own factory. 1913: Avery and Fisher perfected the acetylene cylinder in Indianapolis, USA. 1916: Ansel Cente invented the X-ray non-destructive testing method for welding areas. 1917: Arc welding was used to repair 109 ship engines captured from Germany during World War I, and the repaired ships were used to transport 500,000 American soldiers to France. 1917: The Webster & Southbridge Electric Company in Massachusetts, USA, used arc welding equipment to weld 11 miles of 3-inch diameter pipeline.
1919: Comfort A. Adams forms the American Welding Society (AWS). Commemorative photo of the American Welding Society event in 1924. 1919: C.J. Halslag invented AC welding. 1920: Gerdien discovered the thermal effect of plasma flow. 1920: The first all-welded hull steamship, the Fulagar, was launched in England. Circa 1920: Arc welding begins to be used to repair some valuable equipment. Circa 1920: A method of producing steel pipe using resistance welding (The Johnson Process) is patented. Circa 1920: The first welded oil tanker, the Poughkeepsie Socony, is launched in the United States. Circa 1920: Flux-cored wire is used for hardfacing welding. 1922: The Prairie Pipe Company successfully completed the laying of an 8-inch diameter, 140-mile crude oil pipeline from Mexico to Texas using oxyacetylene welding technology. 1923: Stordy invented cladding welding. 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 storage tank that can be raised or lowered like a telescope. , so that the volume of the storage tank can be easily changed. 1924: Magnolia Gas Company uses oxyacetylene welding technology to build a 14-mile natural gas pipeline of fully welded construction. 1924: H.H. Lester first used X-ray photography in the United States to inspect the quality of castings to be installed with a steam pressure of 8.3Mpa for the Boston Edison Company's power plant. 1926: American Langmuir invented atomic hydrogen welding. 1926: Alexandre of the United States invented the principle of CO2 gas shielded welding. 1926: The A.O. Smith Company of the United States first introduced the production method of using an extrusion method to coat the metal electrode for arc welding with a protective solid coating (i.e., manual arc welding electrode). 1926: Chromium-tungsten-cobalt welding consumable alloy receives the first patent for flux-cored wire. 1926: Americans M. Hobart and P. K. Devers obtained a patent for using helium as an arc shielding gas. 1927: Lindberg successfully flew the Ryan monoplane across the Atlantic Ocean alone. The aircraft's fuselage was composed of an all-welded alloy steel tube 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 Railroad Center uses continuous welding to lay rail in two tunnels. The welded rails were put into use two years later when the line was completed. 1930: Robinov invented submerged arc welding in the former Soviet Union. 1931: The Empire State Building, which is composed of an all-steel structure made by welding technology, was built. 1933: The first joint welded using the arc welding process is laid on a long-distance pipeline without a liner structure. 1933: The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the tallest suspension bridge in the world at the time, was completed and opened to traffic. It was welded together with 87,750 tons of steel. 1934: Patton Welding Institute is established. Yevkin Oskarovich Barton, founder of Barton Institute Europe's largest fully welded iron bridge over the Dnieper River - Barton Bridge 1934: The specification for non-heated pressure vessels was jointly published by API-ASME. 1935: The American company Linde Air Products perfects submerged arc welding technology. 1936: Swiss Wasserman invented low-temperature brazing. 1939: American Reinecke invented the plasma spray gun. 1940: The first all-welded ship, the Exchequer, was built and launched at Ingalls Shipyard 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: Behl in the United States invented ultrasonic welding. 1943: Aircraft builders use atomic hydrogen welding, submerged arc welding and gas metal arc welding for the first time to weld the hollow blades of aircraft steel propellers. 1944: British Carl invented explosive welding. 1947: Bopoшeвич (Vorosevic) of the former Soviet Union invented electroslag welding. 1949: The first FORD car with an all-welded structure manufactured using arc welding and resistance welding processes rolled off the assembly line. 1950: Americans Muller, Gibson and Anderson obtained the first patent for overspray in gas metal arc welding. 1950: German F. Buhorn discovered plasma arc. Circa 1950: Electroslag welding is used in production for the first time in the former Soviet Union. 1953: American Hunt invented cold pressure welding. 1953: CO2 gas shielded arc welding was invented by Lyubovsky of the former Soviet Union, Sekiguchi of Japan, and others. 1954: Self-shielded flux-cored welding wire was put into production at Lincoln Electric Company in the United States. 1954: The Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine built using welding technology, enters service with the U.S. Navy. 1954: Benard invented the tubular welding rod. 1955: American Thom Kraft invented high-frequency induction welding. 1956: China established the Harbin Welding Research Institute. 1956: Chudikov of the former Soviet Union invented friction welding technology. 1957: France's Schgier invented electron beam welding. 1957: Kazakhev invented diffusion welding in the former Soviet Union. 1957: "Welding" was founded, which was China's first professional welding magazine. About 1957: The United States, the United Kingdom, and the former Soviet Union all used CO2 as a shielding gas in the gas metal arc welding short-circuit transition process. 1960: Maiman of the United States discovered laser, and now laser has been widely used in the field of welding. 1960: Airco in the United States introduced the melting electrode pulse gas shielded welding process. 1962: The patent for gas-electric vertical welding was awarded to the Belgian Arcos. 1962: Electron beam welding was first officially used on supersonic aircraft and B-70 bombers. 1964: The patent rights for the hot wire welding method and the coordinated control gas metal arc welding method were awarded to the American Manz. 1965: The welded Appllo 10 spacecraft successfully landed on the moon. 1967: Japan's Arata invented continuous laser welding. 1967: The world's first submarine pipeline was successfully laid in the Gulf of Mexico. It was manufactured by the American company Krank Pilia using hot threading and welding processes. 1968: The world's tallest acute-angled steel structure is welded above the 22nd floor of Chicago's John Hancock Center, reaching a height of 1,107 feet. 1969: The American Linde Company proposed the hot wire plasma arc spraying process. 1970: The thyristor inverter welding machine was introduced. 1976: Japan's Arata invented tandem electron beam welding. Around 1980: Semiconductor circuits and computer circuits are widely used to control welding and cutting processes. Around 1980: Steam soldering is used to solder printed circuit boards. 1983: The rounded top of the 160-foot-diameter petal structure on the space shuttle is welded using submerged arc and gas shielded welding methods and inspected using a radiographic flaw detector. 1984: Former Soviet female cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya conducts welding experiments in space. 1988: Welding robots began to be widely used in automobile production lines. Around 1990: Inverter technology has developed significantly, resulting in a significant reduction in the weight and size of welding equipment. 1991: The British Welding Institute invented friction stir welding and successfully welded aluminum alloy flat plates. 1993: The US Army's Abrams main battle tank was successfully welded using a robot-controlled CO2 laser.
1996: A research team of more than 30 people, headed by Academician B.K. Lebegev of the Patton Welding Research Institute in Ukraine, researched and developed the welding technology of human tissue. 2001: Human tissue welding was successfully used in clinical practice. 2002: Welding of the Three Gorges turbine is completed, the largest turbine ever built and currently under construction in the world