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    The Elkington Silver Electroplating Works was a building on Newhall Street in Birmingham, England. It later housed the Birmingham science museum Museum...
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    Richards Elkington (17 October 1801 – 22 September 1865) was a manufacturer from Birmingham, England. He patented the first commercial electroplating process...
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  • began to focus on electroplating. Parkes took out his first patent (No. 8905) in 1841 on a process for electroplating delicate works of art. His improved...
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    refinement of new processes such as electroplating, invented by George Elkington at the Elkington Silver Electroplating Works on Newhall Street. Also invented...
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    Metal leaf (redirect from Silver leaf (art))
    mostly used with gold leaf, electroplating is a gilding technique that does not use leaf. The process of electroplating typically involves dipping an...
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    old Science Museum, formerly the Elkington Silver Electroplating Works, where blue plaques commemorate George Elkington and also Alexander Parkes, inventor...
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    In 1951, the Museum of Science and Industry opened at Elkington Silver Electroplating Works, Newhall Street. Over the following years, the museum acquired...
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    batteries) in electroplating, and the use of gold sulphite and silver sulphite as electrolytes. He offered to sell the rights to Elkingtons for the enormous...
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    Russia. Many of these objects were made by Elkington & Co., which had an extensive business in electrotyped silver. An important example of electrotyping's...
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  • suitable electrolyte for gold and silver electroplating. Carl Wilhelm Siemens has several meetings with George Elkington, and makes speeches on 'Science...
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  • remodelled. The Museum of Science & Industry is opened in the former Elkington electroplating works, Newhall Street, as a museum owned by Birmingham Museum & Art...
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