Great facts : a popular history and description of the most remarkable inventions during the present century (1860)
Bakewell, Frederick C. (Frederick Collier), 1800-1869 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 202
r rendered durable; butthe most important use that has been made of theprocess is in plating and gilding. To eftect that ob-ject, it is necessary to employ a voltaic battery sepa-rated from the vessel in w^hich the decompositiontakes place. The annexed diagram shows an arrange-ment of this kind. A… … suspended by wires from the metal rod,/*, and a plateof silver is attached to the rod, e. Thus, when thevessel is filled with the silvering liquid, a voltaic cur-rent is established, and the deposition is effected onthe articles connected with the negative polco The menstruum best adapted for…
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