page_title: Charles L. Coffin
hierarchical_section_title: Charles L. Coffin
caption_attribution_description: English: Charles L.Coffin - Detroit. President of Welded Steel Barrel Corporation
context_page_description: Charles L. Coffin of Detroit was awarded U.S. Patent 428,459 for an arc welding process using a metal electrode. This was the first time that metal melted from the electrode carried across the arc to deposit filler metal in the joint to make a weld. About 10 years earlier, N.G. Slavianoff, a Russian, presented the same idea of transferring metal across an arc, but to cast metal in a mold.
context_section_description: Charles L. Coffin of Detroit was awarded U.S. Patent 428,459 for an arc welding process using a metal electrode.  This was the first time that metal melted from the electrode carried across the arc to deposit filler metal in the joint to make a weld. About 10 years earlier, N.G. Slavianoff, a Russian, presented the same idea of transferring metal across an arc, but to cast metal in a mold.
caption: Charles L. Coffin
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