Jewish Invention Myths: Electroplating
Let’s bust another ‘jewish invention’ myth: shall we?
Next let’s deal with the claim that jews invented the process of electroplating which is still in wide use to this day.
The claim made is shown by ‘MNews’ as follows:
‘Boris Semyonovich Jacobi – Electric motor, electroplating
The first practically useful electric motor, which immediately found its application, was created by the outstanding electrical engineer Boris Jacobi. He also became famous for the discovery of electroplating and designing a letter-printing telegraph device.’ (1)
Once again this is a lie by omission by jewish sources because while we now know that the famous ‘Baghdad Battery’ of ancient Mesopotamia/Persia is a myth; it was after all only a speculation made by German archaeologist Wilhelm Konig in 1940. (2)
The first example of electroplating was actually performed by the Italian chemist Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli in 1805 after he’d invented the process sometime between 1802 and 1805. Brugnatelli’s discovery and invention was however suppressed by the French Academy of Sciences due to unspecified reasons but probably related to the then ongoing Napoleonic Wars raging across Europe. (3)
Boris Jacobi - born Moritz Jacobi in Prussia - then independently rediscovered electroplating in Russia in 1838 and while it was quickly adopted by Russian scientists and industry; (4) it was also independently rediscovered by John Wright – an English surgeon in England in 1840 who then sold his invention/process to Birmingham-based businessman George Richards Elkington who patented in it in 1840 as British Patent 8447, which then became the basis of the massive electroplating industry in the city of Birmingham which began spreading around the world from 1844. (5)
Thus, we can see that there is an element of truth in the claim that Jacob invented electroplating, but he didn’t invent it first and nor was his invention the basis of the modern electroplating industry.
In fact, priority for the invention of electroplating must be assigned to chemist Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli with lesser credit also being given to Jacobi and Wright, but of the three people we can credit with the invention of electroplating Jacobi - the only jew – is the least important by far.
Hence my comment that there was a little bit of truth and that jews who claim Jacobi ‘invented electroplating’ are deliberately lying by omission.
References
(1) https://mnews.world/en/news/the-great-jews-and-their-inventions
(2) https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2020/03/08/debunking-the-so-called-baghdad-battery/
(3) https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/luigi-valentino-brugnatelli_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/
(4) https://web.archive.org/web/20120305183445/http://www.galteh.ru/article_galvanotehnika.html
(5) https://web.archive.org/web/20131030134452/http://electrochem.cwru.edu/estir/hist/hist-103-Brugnatelli-Hunt.pdf