Besides, with the introduction of home computers, a generation of enthusiasts taught themselves to program, and then whiled away their spare hours writing software instead of soldering components onto printed-circuit boards.
Meanwhile, "surface-mount" technology pioneered by IBM decades earlier—started to displace the industry's standard "through-hole" method of soldering individual components to printed-circuit boards.
Goods are endlessly repaired and recycled, for want of replacements: all over Yangon, tradesmen can be seen gluing books back together, soldering ancient transistors, or respooling the tape on old audio-cassettes.
Tin has replaced lead, which is more toxic, in a lot of soldering.
As a kid in suburban Chicago, Mr Ozzie was already soldering all sorts of dangerous circuits together in a guest bedroom, but it was at college in the 1970s that he discovered his passion, which was, as he once put it, "to augment relationships" among human beings through technology.
Soldering, granulation, and wire making were practiced.
Aluminum can be joined by welding, brazing, soldering, adhesive bonding, riveting, stitching, or stapling and by means of a number of mechanical assemblies such as nuts and bolts, screws, and nails.
From these luxury objects found at Alaca Hüyük, together with those found at Troy and elsewhere, scholars have concluded that processes known to the Anatolian metalsmiths of the Early Bronze Age included casting by cire perdue, hammering or repoussé work, sweating or soldering, granulation (decoration consisting of tiny spheres of gold soldered onto a background), filigree, and cloisonné inlay.
Excellent in health, he enjoyed hunting, tennis, archery, and jousting in his youth, but he turned in his later years to making clogs, repairing broken glasses, and soldering broken knives.
Soldering, process that uses low-melting-point metal alloys to join metallic surfaces without melting them.
Electrical and electronic tools: drills, saws, sewing machines, soldering irons, equipment for turning, milling, grinding, drilling, making holes, folding, bending, or similar processing of wood and metal.
