Excerpt from 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 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.