The process of coating, shaping, or reproducing objects by using electric current to deposit metal onto or around a mold.
From galvano- (galvanism) + -plasty (from Greek plasteia, molding). Developed as a practical industrial technique in the 1840s-1860s, allowing mass production of metallic copies.
Galvanoplasty was the 3D printing of the Victorian era—you could take a mold of anything and electrically coat it with copper or nickel, creating perfect duplicates faster than a craftsman could hand-make them.
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