Charles Cadwell, was a professor at the Case School of Applied Science (now

Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio. Case Western Reserve was established in 1967, when Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 and named for its location in the Connecticut Western Reser ...

), in Cleveland, Ohio. He further developed the

exothermic welding Exothermic welding, also known as exothermic bonding, thermite welding (TW), and thermit welding, is a welding process that employs molten metal to permanently join the conductors. The process employs an exothermic reaction of a thermite composit ...

system previously invented by Hans Goldschmidt in 1895; in 1938-1939 Cadwell developed a non-ferrous

process using copper, today widely known as "Cadweld".Improvements and innovation in the exothermic welding procedure
Aplicaciones Tecnológicas, S.A. The original use of the process was to weld signal bonds to railroad tracks, which previously had to be done with "pins" knocked into holes drilled into the web of the rail. Later developments allows the rails themselves to be welded together.

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