Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1888 — Plating Without Batteries. [ARTICLE]

Plating Without Batteries.

By the hydro-plastic process of M. A. Levy, thin coats of metal are deposited upon other metals without the use of batteries or dynamos. It depends upon a double decomposition, and permits of the electrolysis of all metals. The article to be coated is suspended by a zinc or iron wire in a solution of a suitable salt—as chloride of nickel for an iron of copper object—when the metal is deposited from the solution and the wire is attacked and dissolved. —Arkansaw Traveler.