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The 19th William Blum Lecture, Research and Decorative Coatings

In selecting a subject for this lecture, I found it was difficult to deal with any phase of electroplating without encountering some contribution that Dr. Blum had made. Having known Dr. Blum personally, I was impressed with one thing and that was his concern for the success of the American Electroplaters' Society. A part of this concern was for harmony between the practical plater and the research man. This is well expressed in the first William Blum Lecture in which he concluded that "education in its broadest sense and application is the most important problem that confronts the plating industry." With this thought in mind, I thought that the subject of decorative coatings discussed from the practical and theoretical aspects would be apropos for this Lecture.

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