Excerpt from A Manual of Electro-Metallurgy: Including the Applications of the Art to Manufacturing Processes The Author of the following Treatise was engaged for several years in the application of electro-metallurgy to the purposes of Manufacture. His operations were performed with solutions of all the metals, and upon objects of every size and form. They commenced when the art was young, - when its practical applications were speculative, its advantages and disadvantages equally unknown, - when difficulties of all kinds, such as beset every new art, had to be met, and con sidered, and overcome. 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.