Nikolay Benardos
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| birth_date = July 8, 1842
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| death_place = Fastiv, Russian Empire
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File:Patent Electrogefest.jpg method named Elektrogefest ("Electric Hephaestus") granted to Benardos and his sponsor Stanisław Olszewski in 1887]]
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Nikolay Nikolayevich Benardos ({{langx|ru|Никола́й Никола́евич Бенардо́с}}; 1842–1905) was a Russian inventor of Greek descent who in 1881 introduced carbon arc welding, which was the first practical arc welding method.
Biography
Nikolay Benardos was born on July 8, 1842, in Benardosivka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine).
During the 1860s and 1870s he investigated the electric arc, and he worked on this in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kineshma. Nikolay Benardos was the first to apply an electric arc to heat the edges of the steel sheets to the plastic state. He demonstrated a new way of metal compounds in Paris in 1881.
He could not stay in the capital due to his financial state of affairs and in 1899 he moved to Fastiv.
M. M. Benardos Museum in Pereiaslav, Ukraine
The museum was established in Pereiaslav (Ukraine) in 1981 to commemorate 100 years after inventing the Elektrogefest.[http://kpi.ua/en/node/9869 Benardos Nikolai Nikolaevich and his famous invention] The museum consists of five rooms: a study, living room, workshop, laboratory and the exhibition hall.
Будинок поміщика з с. Вороньків Бориспільського району. 1-а половина 19 ст.jpg|M. M. Benardos Museum in Pereiaslav
3 Bernardos.JPG|The study
4 Bernardos.JPG|The living room
6 Bernardos.JPG|The laboratory
References
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External links
- [http://www.biografia.ru/arhiv/benardos.html Biography of Benardos by A. A. Chekanov] {{in lang|ru}}
- [http://www.weldworld.ru/history_benardos.html Benardos Nikolay Nikolayevich] at weldworld.ru {{in lang|ru}}{{Self-published inline|date=June 2010}}
- [http://www.history.org.ua/?encyclop&termin=Benardos_M БЕНАРДОС Микола Миколайович] {{in lang|uk}}
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Category:Inventors from the Russian Empire
Category:People from the Russian Empire of Greek descent