Tim Wonnacott

Tim Wonnacott visits St Pauls Square, Georgian square in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, England, It was named after the church in its centre. Built 1777-79 on the Newhall estate of the Colmore family. It was an elegant and desirable location in the mid 19th century. At the end of the 19th century the square was swallowed by workshops and factories, with the fronts of some buildings being pulled down to make shop fronts or factory entrances. George Richards Elkington (17th October 1801 - 22nd September 1865) was a manufacturer from Birmingham, England. He patented the first commercial electroplating process. Elkington was born in Birmingham, the son of a spectacle manufacturer. Apprenticed to his uncles' silver plating business in 1815, he became, on their death, sole proprietor of the business, but subsequently took his cousin, Henry Elkington, into partnership. The science of electrometallurgy was then in its infancy, but the Elkingtons were quick to recognize its possibilities. They had already taken out certain patents for the application of electricity to metals when, in 1840, John Wright, a Birmingham surgeon, discovered the valuable properties of a solution of cyanide of silver in potassium cyanide for electroplating purposes. The Elkingtons purchased and patented Wright's process, subsequently acquiring the rights of other processes and improvements.

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[zelmaso]

Tim Wonnacott is a legend. One of my all time heroes.