Nikolay Benardos

Nikolay Nikolayevich Benardos
BornJuly 8, 1842
Benardosivka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedSeptember 21, 1905(1905-09-21) (aged 63)
Fastiv, Russian Empire
OccupationEngineer
The patent for the arc welding method named Elektrogefest ("Electric Hephaestus") granted to Benardos and his sponsor Stanisław Olszewski in 1887
A Soviet postage stamp dedicated to the hundredth anniversary of the invention of arc welding

Nikolay Nikolayevich Benardos (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Бенардо́с) (1842–1905) was an inventor from the Russian Empire who was of Greek descent who in 1881 introduced carbon arc welding, which was the first practical arc welding method.