Charles L. Coffin of

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was awarded for an

arc welding Arc welding is a welding process that is used to join metal to metal by using electricity to create enough heat to melt metal, and the melted metals, when cool, result in a binding of the metals. It is a type of welding that uses a welding powe ...

process using a metal

electrode An electrode is an electrical conductor used to make contact with a nonmetallic part of a circuit (e.g. a semiconductor, an electrolyte, a vacuum or air). Electrodes are essential parts of batteries that can consist of a variety of materials de ...

. This was the first time that metal melted from the

carried across the arc to deposit filler metal in the joint to make a weld. Two years earlier,

Nikolay Slavyanov Nikolay Gavrilovich Slavyanov (russian: Никола́й Гаври́лович Славя́нов; – ) was a Russian inventor who in 1888 introduced arc welding with consumable metal electrodes, or shielded metal arc welding, the second histori ...

presented the same idea of transferring metal across an arc, but to cast metal in a mold.

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