H. J. Newton

experimenter

Biography

H. J. Newton, of New York, is credited by Spillane with anticipating, as early as 1851, the practice of coating piano strings with metallic alloys, a technique later commercialized by Colonel H. W. Gray's 1876 patent for electro-plating piano strings in gold at Schomacker & Company.

Highlights

Of New York; anticipated the technique of coating piano strings with metallic alloys as early as 1851, predating Colonel H. W. Gray's 1876 gold electro-plating patent

Source

Daniel Spillane, History of the American Pianoforte (1890), p. 192.

Public domain.

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