This volume contains a detailed manual for the electroplater, giving
methods of polishing, plating, buffing, oxidizing, and lacquering
metals. Written in plain language and profusely illustrated, this text
will be of much interest to the electroplater and to anyone with a keen
interest in collecting antiquarian books of this ilk. The chapters of
this book include: 'Various kinds of Electroplaters'; 'Some Points on
Hygiene for Platers'; 'The Polishing Room and its Machinery and
Management'; 'Acid Drips and Pickles, Their Composition and Uses'; 'The
Arrangement and Management of the Plating Room'; 'The Construction and
Management of Dynamos and Wiring', etcetera. This text was first
published in 1904, and is proudly republished now complete with a new
introduction on metal work.