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Electroplating
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Electroplating, also known as electrochemical deposition or electrodeposition, is a process for producing a metal coating on a solid substrate through the reduction of cations of that metal by means o
Copper electroplating machine for layering PCBs
Copper electroplating machine for layering PCBs
Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli
Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli
Galvanoplastic sculpture on St. Isaac's Cathedral in Saint Petersburg
Galvanoplastic sculpture on St. Isaac's Cathedral in Saint Petersburg
Nickel plating
Nickel plating
Electrotyping
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Electrotyping is a chemical method for forming metal parts that exactly reproduce a model. The method was first experimented by the Italian physicist Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli in 1802. It was later
Electroplating
…but this has since been refuted; the items were fire-gilded using mercury. Boris Jacobi in Russia not only rediscovered galvanoplastics, but developed electrotyping and galvanoplastic sculpture. Galvanoplastics quickly came into fashion in Russia, with such people as inventor Peter Bagration, scientist Heinrich…
1837 lithographic portrait of Moritz von Jacobi (1801–1874), who invented electrotyping in 1838.
1837 lithographic portrait of Moritz von Jacobi (1801–1874), who invented electrotyping in 1838.
1841 magazine illustration by Joseph Alexander Adams. The illustration compares direct letterpress printing from a wood carving and from a copper elec
1841 magazine illustration by Joseph Alexander Adams. The illustration compares direct letterpress printing from a wood carving and from a copper electrotype copy of the carving; it is among the earliest uses of electrotypes in printing.
The electrotyping department of the New York Herald in 1902.
The electrotyping department of the New York Herald in 1902.
Copper electrotype (1911) of Ernst Rietschel's 1857 sculpture for the Goethe–Schiller Monument in Syracuse, New York USA. This sculpture is about 3.5
Copper electrotype (1911) of Ernst Rietschel's 1857 sculpture for the Goethe–Schiller Monument in Syracuse, New York USA. This sculpture is about 3.5 metres (11 ft) tall, and was produced by the WMF Company in Germany.