Brief biography of Benardos

Lukhsky inventor of welding Nikolai Nikolaevich Benardos - Russian engineer, inventor of electric arc welding, point and suture contact welding. Even in childhood, the future inventor showed a great attraction to all kinds of crafts. His favorite classes were a locksmith and blacksmithing. Nicholas spent whole days in small workshops of his father serving the needs of the estate, where he mastered the skills of the blacksmith.

In the year, at the insistence of his father, Nikolai entered the medical faculty of Kyiv University of St. Vladimir. During training at the doctor, Benardos made his first known invention - the tooth seal that he made of silver. The first patient of the young inventor was his dealer his name was not preserved, whom Benardos saved from toothache with the help of a silver “button”, as he called it.

In the year, Nikolai left medicine and transferred to the Petrovsky agricultural and forest academy in Moscow in the department of agricultural sciences. Having studied at the Academy for about three years, up to a year, he left there, completely devoting himself to inventive activities. At the end of December, to resolve a number of economic issues, Nikolai Benardos visited the family estate of his mother, which was located in the town of Luh of the Yuryevets district of the Kostroma province.

Since then, he has repeatedly come to this high -standing city. In one of these visits, Benardos met with Anna Alekseevna Lebedeva, the daughter of the owner of the Luhsky In inn - and married her in the year. Benardos decided to settle in these parts. In the twelve miles from the village, on the forest section that went to him from his mother, he built the landowner estate “Anteline”.

At the estate there were a two-story house built in the Turkish-Japanese style with a fountain, pagodes and even a five-door pyramid, a large fruit garden and a greenhouse, as well as well-equipped locksmith, mechanical, wood-bearing workshops and forges. At first, Benardos was going to engage in economic activities for all the instructions learned at the Academy of Agronomic Science.

However, having a great craving for invention, he spent every free minute in a mechanical workshop. He designed, and then built several original agricultural tools with his own hands. Then he put an invention on the stream. Benardos participated in social activities. In years, he was elected to the Yuryevets district and Kostroma provincial zemstvo meetings. His speeches at the Zemstvo meetings contained specific proposals for the development of the healthcare system and strengthening sanitary control.

According to Benardos, at that time a member of the county school council, the 9th County Zemstvo Assembly decided to petition the government to introduce compulsory training. Benardos launched the monument to Nikolai Benardos either to the technical support of his research or the arrangement of the life of the surrounding peasants. He provided medical assistance to residents of neighboring villages, organized a pharmacy and gave it out for free medicines.

Nikolai Nikolaevich built in the estate an invalid mechanical laundry, the forerunner of the washing machine, the library and the school in which peasant children studied for free. This was the first and only school in those places. He bought everything necessary for the educational process at his own expense. In February, Benardos designed a special shell for transporting firewood and other weights.

A patent was given to him for this invention, gratitude was sent from the agricultural museum of St. Petersburg, but although a number of landowners brought such shells in his farms, he was never introduced into industrial production. In subsequent years, Nikolai Benardos was increasingly engaged in work in the field of electrical engineering. Even when building a ship, Benardos often had to connect large metal parts.

This was done with blacksmithing, but there were no large heating furnaces in Benardos's workshops. Therefore, the inventor tried to warm the edges with a volt arc to their dentes, while the metal was often melted and connected small areas. In the middle of the x, Andrei Benardos met with engineer and inventor Andrei Boxenmeister, who founded the Elektokontakt plant in the year near Kineshma for the production of batteries for the production of batteries, coal products and electric shoes.

Friendship with a Boxenmaster contributed to the inventive activity of Nikolai Benardos. The owner of the plant supplied it with chemical sources of current, electric cooked and other necessary materials. Benardos got the opportunity to experiment with an electric arc, work in the field of finding specific areas of practical use of electricity. Together with the Boxenmeister, he conducted a number of experiments with batteries.

In order to get the money necessary to continue scientific and engineering surveys, Nikolai Benardos was forced to sell a significant part of his land and lay the estate.In the end, he left the estate on the manager and left for St. Petersburg.

The description of the electrogefest from the English patent in Benardos proposed "a method of connecting and separation of metals by the direct action of electric current" called "electrogefest". In Paris, for the first time in the world he demonstrated electric arc welding of metals, the patents for which he received in the city in St. Petersburg. Invented a contact spot welding.

In subsequent years, he was engaged in improving the electric welding process and made a number of large inventions in the field of electrical engineering. I developed projects of an electromagnetic gun, a rowing screw with rotary blades, methods of processing plants with an electric field, transmitting electricity through pipes, hydroelectric power station on the Neva.

Kuvaevskaya manufactory in Ivanovo, where the electrohefest was used for the first time from Wikipedia, Ivanovo, st.