✅ SOLVED does anybody know when welded link chain was invented?

[Mud Hut]

I am also looking for a book or website that addresses the evolution of chain and how one can date various chains by their links. Any ideas?

 

[taz42o]

I dont think its possible to get very accurate date , forge welding goes back thousands of years gas welding to the late 1800s and arc welding around early 1900s . But even forge welding is still done just not as much.

 

[taz42o]

https://books.google.com/books?id=y...ved=0ahUKEwjhl_fhpubRAhVD7YMKHV9YD5kQ6AEIRzAM

 

[Mud Hut]

Thanks Taz! Great "link" .. so to speak! I'll mark this solved!

 

[Hughie]

I would guess the closer to machine made chain you get the more uniform the links become. In the monster movies the links of old chain were hammered and square.

 

[BosnMate]

Here's how blacksmiths made chains way back when.



Note --- you can see the welds where it was hammered together.