Who invented arc welding?
Arc welding roots go back to 1800’s when an English scientist discovered that an electric current would form an “arc” when forced across a gap of steel plates. Electric was not used for “arc welding” until 1880’s when DeMeritans, a French inventor, used it to join plates in a storage battery with a “carbon arc.” The procedure was improved on and it was discovered that a bare metal rod, now named an “electrode,” would melt off by the heat of the arc and act as filler metal in the weld.
