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sterlingfiend Posts: 11 |
posted 03-25-2004 08:15 AM
  
[21-0630] Hi all, A trivia question for you... Oddly enough, when I am trying to go to sleep EVERY night, the dumbest things pop into my head, and of course, I lay there analyzing them. Well, the most recent idea was... "if electricity wasn't common until well after the invention of plating, how was it achieved, as we know that to achieve plating, positive and negative charges are involved... not sure of the top of my head how it goes exactly, but that it does (now) require a rectifier. So how'd they do that? LOL, I'm sure some of you may know the answer to this question, and maybe let me get some sleep! Thanks, Mike IP: Logged |
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Patrick Vyvyan Posts: 640 |
posted 03-25-2004 09:20 AM
The earliest electro-plating was done using batteries - which improved as the 19th century progressed - and became commercially viable in the 1840s with pioneering companies such as Elkington in England and Christofle in France. The concept of the dynamo was invented by English scientist Michael Faraday in the 1830s. Faraday also studied the scientific principals of electrolysis. However, the first dynamo to be used in commercial electro-plating was made by the Belgian Zénobe-Théophile Gramme when he was working for Christofle in Paris in the early 1870s. Here is an early Gramme dynamo in the collection of the University of Lyons: IP: Logged |
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