The Art of Electro-Metallurgy; including all known Processes of Electro-deposition

Abstract

DR. GORE has evidently spared no pains to make this text-book a complete manual of the art of electro-metallurgy. Beginning with the history of the subject, he gives an interesting account of the rise and development of the art, full of names and dates and references, and makes the early inventors tell, as far as may be, their own story by quoting freely from their published papers. Then comes a “theoretical division,” about which we have something to say presently, and this is followed by what forms the greater part of the work—a detailed account of practical methods of depositing the various metals. This portion of the book, at once thoroughly circumstantial and comprehensive, cannot fail to prove most useful to the practical electroplater as well as to the scientific student. The metals most commonly employed in the arts receive, of course, most attention; but almost none, even of the rarest metals, pass without notice, and the experiments are described with the precision that comes only of experience. An admirable feature of Dr. Gore's book is the habit; he has of giving specific references to the authorities he makes use of, so that any one with a library at his command may, if he choose, turn up the passages cited. The remainder of the book is filled by a “special technical section” containing various practical directions and details, and, in conclusion, we have a list of the books previously published on the subject and of the English patents referring to electro-metallurgy. The author is to be congratulated on the accumulation and systematic arrangement of an immense mass of information of a kind that will be welcomed alike in the workshop and in the laboratory.

The Art of Electro-Metallurgy; including all known Processes of Electro-deposition.

By G. Gore Text-books of Science Series. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1877.)