This section is from the book "Cassell's Cyclopaedia Of Mechanics", by Paul N. Hasluck. Also available from Amazon: Cassell's Cyclopaedia Of Mechanics.
These are instructions on silvering the inside of a tin teapot. Well scour the inside with powdered Bath brick or Trent sand until quite bright; tiien well rinse in potash water, and fill, whilst still wet, with a good alkaline coppering solution. Connect the teapot by a copper wire to the negative pole of the plating dynamo, and suspend a strip of copper in the pot by a wire connected to the positive pole, and see that this wire does not touch the vessel. In a few minutes the inside should be coated with a thin film of bright copper; then pour out the coppering solution, and substitute a silver-plating solution, and a strip of silver instead of the copper strip. Deposit silver in the teapot until of the required thickness; then pour out the silver solution, rinse with hot water, scratch with a soft wire brush, and polish lightly.
 
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