✅ SOLVED does anybody know when welded link chain was invented?

I dont think its possible to get very accurate date , forge welding goes back thousands of years gas welding to the late 1800s and arc welding around early 1900s . But even forge welding is still done just not as much.
 

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Thanks Taz! Great "link" .. so to speak! I'll mark this solved!
 

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I would guess the closer to machine made chain you get the more uniform the links become. In the monster movies the links of old chain were hammered and square.
 

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Here's how blacksmiths made chains way back when.



Note --- you can see the welds where it was hammered together.
 

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