Comfort Adams and the founding of the American Welding Society (1921)

AWS founded in 1921 after Adams's WWI shipbuilding service; AWS motto "to foster the art and science of welding" — admits welding is an art.

So welding is poorly trained for, and applied as an art often before we know the science behind it. Basically, I've made my career by trying to figure out the science behind what people have been applying as an art. When Comfort Adams started the American Welding Society in 1921 after being in charge of building ships in World War I, he came up with the AWS motto: "to foster the art and science of welding." So they admit it's an art.