Financial reports delivered at the meeting stated an income for fiscal year ending March 31, 1922, of $12,683.74. However, the first meeting also called into discussion the growing financial issues surrounding the depression and proposed solutions to alleviate it. Attendees were told of the formation of Sections in eight cities, and also of the establishment of the Journal of the American Welding Society. īy 1922, the American Welding Society had held its first Annual Meeting. In 1920, the first local Section was organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. That first year the Society grew to 217 members introduced the Journal of the American Welding Society, a technical publication with a life of one issue, but the precursor of the Welding Journal found a home in the Engineering Societies Building in New York City and established the foundation of the committee system for the production of its operating procedures and industry standards on welding. On March 28, 1919, the American Welding Society was born for that purpose, with Adams serving as its first President. and the National Welding Council into a new organization, the purpose of which was to provide dependable and objective information on the developing technology of welding. Welding performed well in the war effort and its success motivated Adams in 1919 to bring together industry leaders for the purpose of merging the Welding Committee of the Emergency Fleet Corp. Adams, to chair the Welding Committee of the Emergency Fleet Corp.
To ensure that industry took advantage of this technology, President Woodrow Wilson called upon a Harvard professor, Comfort A. An evolving metal joining process, welding, suddenly became very necessary to enhance the war effort. The roots of the American Welding Society stretch back to World War I, when the sudden demands of swiftly producing military equipment brought about the need for standardization of the manufacturing industry. 6.1 List of American Welding Society Sections.