Electro-Plating Made Easy

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. 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.