Electrical engineering in the postwar world: VI — Welding´s promise of lower costs

WE have heard a great deal about postwar planning. In fact there are more postwar planners than there are government employees, which is of itself a triumph, but we of the welding industry in looking to the time after the war have an unusual opportunity. Although arc welding, technically, is older than any of us, its actual application in manufacturing is comparatively recent, and its application to its eventual position really has not yet been started.