On a Process for coating Non-conducting Substances with Metal.

Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 27, 1894, Page 672

. 11. “On a Process for coating Non-conducting Substances with Metal,” by H. N. McLeod. Abstract. Any article, and foliage, wet or dry, or even oily, may be treated, and there is practically no limit to the selection. The most delicate of columbines, and lizards, may be treated with equal ease. In fact, when the process becomes known all dabblers in electrolysis will take to producing articles by it. There have been produced in metal, specimens of insects, narcissus, camellias, violets, jonquils, snowdrops, grasses of the most delicate description, leaves (reproducing the veins with the greatest fidelity), fronds (having five hundred points to surface of 2in. square), designs on specimen glass, &c. By the process the articles are covered in a few minutes, after which the electroplating is finished in the ordinary way. No chemicals are used. In many cases where black-lead is now-used the process will supersede the old method.