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The Locomotive (1867)

Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 170

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fficult at the present time to comprehend it. Werefer to the electric welding of metals by the process invented by Prof. EliLu Thomson,of the Thomson-Houston Electric Company. Hitherto welding has been confined to wrought iron and steel, and the most perfectwelds had only about seventy-five per… … Fig. 1. Fig. 2. Now all this seems destined to be suddenly changed in all industrial works. Notonly iron is perfectly welded in a very short period of time, but all kinds of metals canbe welded with equal facility not only to each other but to any other kind of metal.Moreover the line of junction…

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