COPPER AND STEEL CAN NOW BE WELDED.

Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 20, 18 December 1906, Page 2

COPPER AND STEEL CAN NOW BE WELDED.

r-* —- VALUABLE /SECRET SAID TO HAVE Bj&EN DISCOVERED, The secret of welding copper on steel and /other metals, an accomplishment Ulrich has been sought by metallurgists for years, is said to have been/ •successfully performed by J. Monnot, a French engineer who has'succeeded in enlisting American capital to exploit his discovery. This new development of the art of welding is regarded as a most important stop, and its possibilities are said to be boundless. A combination made by this process will, to a great extent, take the place of sol/d copper in the transmitting of elqfctricity, where it will be very welcome, on account of the high price of copper, and at the same time it will offer no temptations to thieves, as /the solid copper does. Another field in which the new combination will make itself felt is in the manufacture of cooking utensils. For the purpose of experiment a steel pan, lined with silver, the weld being accomplished by the new process, was subjected to a heat which would have ended the life of an article of tin or enamel and was then filled with cold water without sustaining the least damage. A plant is being equipped at Chester Pa., U.S.A., and at an early date steel ingote, billets and bars will be turned out coated with copper, aluminium, silver and bronze, which will be rolled into sheets or drawn into wire without disturbing the union of the metals, the proportions being maintained throughout the operations.