Thomas A. Edison's Latest Invention A Storage Battery Designed and Constructed from the Automobile User's Point of View ...
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Paten secured. On
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Connections between the cells a
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made means heavy niCKel-plated
copper·wire connectors, with steel lugs
swaged the ends and fitting the
taper terminal posts.
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