• The Elkington Silver Electroplating Works was a building on Newhall Street in Birmingham, England.
  • The earliest electroplate made by Elkington's was marked with 'E & Co' crowned in a shield and the word ELEC TRO PLATE in three portions.
  • Date marks for 1865, tarnish throughout, handle spacers are a little loose. Circa 1861 - ELKINGTON Electroplate Silver Plated 6" Ice Sugar Tongs.
  • Elkington & Co., a silver and silver plate manufacturing. company, was established in Birmingham, England by George Richards Elkington.
  • There is a Blue Plaque commemorating him on the old Elkington Silver Electroplating Works (The old Science Museum), Newhall Street, Birmingham.
  • In the 19th century it was the Elkington Silver Electroplanting Works. It was built in 1838 for George Elkington. Most of the building was demolished in the 1960s.
  • The Elkington Silver Electroplating Works, is a building on Newhall Street in Birmingham, England.
  • The originators of silver-plating were George Richards Elkington and Henry Elkington who began their research in times of the Industrial Revolution.
  • How Electroplating Works: Electroplating uses electrical current to reduce dissolved metal cations so that they form a coherent metal coating on an electrode.
  • The Elkingtons. Other inventors were also carrying on similar work. Several patents for electroplating processes were issued in 1840.
  • There is a Blue Plaque commemorating him on the old Elkington Silver Electroplating Works (The old Science Museum), Newhall Street, Birmingham.
  • ...George Richards Elkington and Henry Elkington of Sheffield, England, who, in 1840, patented the modern process for producing electroplated nickel silver.
  • The Elkington Silver Electroplating Works was a building on Newhall Street in Birmingham, England.