The Beginnings of Gold Plating

Many people consider gold plating's origins to have begun with mankind's discovery of gold. Even in the Stone Age, craftsmen pounded gold into thin sheets that were used for decorative purposes. Though thin sheets of gold would later be used in gold plating, these first sheets of gold were not applied to other materials.

Gold plating as it is known today was first developed in 1800. Alessandro Volta discovered electrodeposition, the science known as electroplating. It allowed for two metals to be fused together. Three years later, Luigi Brugnatelli used electroplating to apply gold plating to silver medals.

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