Nikolay Nikolayevich Benardos (; 1842–1905) was a Russian inventor of

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descent who in 1881 introduced

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, which was the first practical

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method.

Biography

Nikolay Benardos was born on July 8, 1842, in Benardosivka,

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(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

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in 1881. He could not stay in the capital due to his financial state of affairs and in 1899 he moved to

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. He died at the age of 63 in Fastiv.

M. M. Benardos Museum in Pereiaslav, Ukraine

The museum was established in

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(Ukraine) in 1981 to commemorate 100 years after inventing the Elektrogefest.Benardos Nikolai Nikolaevich and his famous invention
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3 Bernardos.JPG, The study 4 Bernardos.JPG, The living room 6 Bernardos.JPG, The laboratory

References

External links

Biography of Benardos by A. A. Chekanov

at weldworld.ru
БЕНАРДОС Микола Миколайович
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