The practical metal-worker's assistant : containing the arts of working all metals and alloys, forging of iron and steel, hardening and tempering, melting and mixing, casting and founding, works in sheet metal, the processes dependent on the ductility of the metals, soldering, and the most improved processes, and tools employed by metal-workers, with the application of the art of electro-metallurgy to manufacturing processes : collected from original sources, and from the works of Holtzapffel, Bergeron, Leupold, Plumier, Napier, and others ... (1851)
Byrne, Oliver · Philadelphia : H.C. Baird · leaf 405
. Cheap metals have also been coated with silver bythe electro-process, and then used. The most successful is a compo-sition metal made of tin, lead, and a little antimony, rolled intosheet and plated by silver; this was found very convenient, becauseit could be easily bent into any required shape,… … Figure 513 represents a single cell of this form of battery. A,is the jar containing the solution. Z, Z, the two amalgamated zincplates. S, the platinized silver plate. The whole are suspended bya cross-bar of wood ; and as it is essential to the proper working of.the battery that the plates be…
Metal-work · Electrometallurgy · Metallurgy
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