Having
served electical engineer the United States
Lighthouse Service, Hutchison had numerous contacts the
Navy and among officials Washington. had his
men experiment with using his battery power bicycles,
plows, and lawn mowers. In
addition, the list reveals many new applications for
electricity which Edison investigated the lab. Although many these
.(8) Finally, scattered throughout the
list were schemes for using the storage battery accumulate
power from the sun, tides, wind, and rivers, all which
suggest Edison was sensitive the America's growing appetite
for energy.(9) Through these
contacts and his skillful preparation advertisements,
Hutchison arranged for the Edison battery used power
submarines, torpedoes, wireless sets, and electric motors in
warships. Optimistically, made one list
in 1911 different applications.4
new markets for his battery. convey its reliability, Hutchison described the
battery being "Rugged Battleship," and this
subsequently came major advertising slogan for the
Edison Storage Battery Company.
To supplement these diverse applications, Edison pursued
the military market through Miller Reese Hutchison.(7) Included this
list were many the tasks which the Edison battery was
successfully applied: lighting railway cars, providing back-up
power for generating stations, lighthouses, miner's lamps,
railroad signals, and lighting isolated houses and yachts
