Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1895 — Discovered a Lost Art [ARTICLE]

Discovered a Lost Art

A Pittsburg special says that George Cromley, Cornelius Shay and John Ryan, iron and steel workers, have discovered the lost art of welding copper to iron or steel. They show several samples of the metals perfectly welded. The last report history gives of these metals having been welded was in 500 B. C. The value of the discovery consists in the fact that copper offers greater resistance to the action of salt water than any other metal. The Carnegie Company has offered the men a fixed price for the secret. A shop has been fitted up for the men at the Homestead plant, where the men propose to weld opiate of copper into an ingot of nickel steel armor plate. The Carnegie Company hopes to be able to cover all the armor plates for the big battleships with copper.