Excerpt from The Electro-Platers' Guide, or Electro-Plating Made Easy: A Complete Manual of Instruction in the Art of Gold, Silver, Nickle, and Copper Plating It was this that prompted him to make these small batteries, so that boys and even men might take hold of one of these and learn the whole ins and outs of one of the most interesting as well as one of the most profitable trades. With one of these batte ries any one with ordinary brains can set to work and plate knives, forks, spoons, rings, and various other small articles, to the in tense interest of the whole family, who are gathered around to see the article gradually assume a silvery white appearance, and who wonder why it is they can not see the little grains of silver flying through the solution to fasten itself to the article. 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.