Electro-Plating Made Easy - The Silver Plater's Handbook; A Clear and Comprehensive Treatise on the Art of Gold, Silver and Nickel Plating, Either With or Without the Aid of the Electric Current #220410

The first seven years of the eighteenth century, were fruitful in important discoveries in the art. In 1800 water was first decomposed into its two constituent gases, by means of the voltaic battery, and shortly afterwards it was discovered that silver, in contact with another} anda more positive metal, received a firmly adherent deposit of copper, when placed in a solution of that metal.