Thomas A. Edison's Latest Invention A Storage Battery Designed and Constructed from the Automobile User's Point of View ...
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Connections between the cells a
battery and with the external cfrcuit are
made means heavy niCKel-plated
copper·wire connectors, with steel lugs
swaged the ends and fitting the
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In charging, the rate can varied
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-Whereas the lead cell the constitu
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ductivity and specific gravity all undergo
definite changJe during the cycle of
charge and discharge, the Edison cell
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work-may given for hour's run at
a rate two three times the normal
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be completed hurry starting at
a high rate and gradually dpcreasing the
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