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Soon after, John Wright of Birmingham, England discovered that potassium cyanide was a suitable electrolyte for gold and silver electroplating. Wright's associates, George Elkington and Henry Elkington were awarded the first patents for electroplating in 1840.
And on June 5, 1933 the United States was officially of the gold standard. Fast-forward to August 15, 1971, when President Richard Nixon announced that the United States would no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, thus completely abandoning the gold standard. Thanks to President Gerald Ford, when in 1974 he signed legislation that permitted Americans again to own gold bullion.