Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-11-22 | Page 8 | Electricity Welds Steel Structure

ELECTRICITY WELDS I STEEL STRUCTURE I The first steel ee structure lre ever eler erected in the world without the aid of ot rivets or bolts has Just been completed in the city of Brooklyn N. N Y T. Instead of riveting riveting riv riv- nv- nv eting the pieces of steel that form the structure they were welded electrically It is a novel idea and because It is In the first of It Its kind considerable interest I 1 has been shown during the construction work especially as the racking nerve noise of riveting was s entirely eliminated n ni i The Interesting thing about electric arc welding is not s so much the method I employed PI but the g constantly o widening application of it as an industrial process Since the e discover C of the process much I progress l has been made tJ f in developing l t various kinds of equipment to make its Us use more easy and general But the real science of or electric arc welding lI lies s Inthe in inthe inthe I the human skill behind the equipment