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GEORGE RICHARDS ELKINGTON (1801-1865)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 288 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:RICHARDS See also:ELKINGTON (1801-1865)  , founder of the See also:electroplating See also:industry in See also:England, was See also:born in See also:Birmingham on the 17th of See also:October 18o1, the son of a spectacle manufacturer . Apprenticed to his uncles, See also:silver platers in Birmingham, he became, on their See also:death, See also:sole proprietor of the business, but subsequently took his See also:cousin, See also:Henry See also:Elkington, into See also:partnership . The See also:science of See also:electrometallurgy was then in its See also:infancy, but the Elkingtons were See also:quick to recognize its possibilities . They had already taken out certain See also:patents for the application of See also:electricity to metals when, in 1840, See also:John See also:Wright, a Birmingham surgeon, discovered the valuable properties of a See also:solution of See also:cyanide of silver in cyanide of See also:potassium for electroplating purposes . The Elkingtons See also:purchased and patented Wright's See also:process, subsequently acquiring the rights of other processes and improvements . Large new See also:works for electroplating and electrogilding were opened in Birmingham in 1841, and in the following See also:year See also:Josiah See also:Mason became a partner in the See also:firm . See also:George See also:Richards Elkington died on the 22nd of See also:September 1865, and Henry Elkington on the 26th of October 1852 .

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