History of Welding: Manual Welding Vs. Robotic Welding

One day Tom was going to his job at welding with robots. When Tom got there he asked his boss how can we make these machines more efficient. I do not know how they are going to do that but someday we will perfect the perfect machines that will weld perfect on cars. Well get going and start thinking of some ideas that would help us improve the robotic arms. Then the next day tom arrived at work he has an idea that can work. He made up a program that can make the welds more precise. They tried the program on the machines and it worked perfectly and it did not have any flaws. So after that they decided to keep the program . Tom was paid more money the company made more money. How has robotic welding made welding more efficient.

Welding can be traced back to the ancient times. One of the earliest methods of welding is bronze age. when ancient people back then had small gold circular were made by pressured welding lap joined together. Then in the Iron Age the Egyptians and people in the eastern area learned to weld pieces of iron together. In the middle age blacksmithing was developed. Blacksmithing is when you weld a piece of metal and hammering it but it was in the 19 century that welding was invented as they know it today.

Welding was invented in the 1900s but lets go back a little to middle age that was when blacksmithing was the best method to use before welding. Now Edmund Davy of England was the one who discovered acetylene in 1836. Some of the others inventors were Auguste De Meritens who worked on how heating of an arc can join two pieces of metal, C.L. Coffin was one one who created a welding process with an electrode. There was other people that helped make welding more efficient. As the years past by welding was getting...

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