Thomas A. Edison's Latest Invention A Storage Battery Designed and Constructed from the Automobile User's Point of View ...
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offset its extremely light weight
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of the vehicle, but increases the propor·
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-and its ruggedness service. vehicle manufacturer using the
battery reports that charged ex·
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of 100 amperes for short tin1('.
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active material the plates enable the
cell stand dead short circuits without
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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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-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
these ql,lalities remain unaltered..,an Supplement 685. All
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BABBITT METALS.
In this "can electricity" the solution s
a mere liquid carrier ions-it has, O
t speak, moods and tenses its own
to catered the battery user. On
account the low voltage the cell, a
vehicle battery given voltage must
contain larger number cells than a
lead battery, twenty-fonr lead cells being
equivalent forty the nickel-iron cells
of same ampere-hour capacity but the
low voltage and comparatively high in·
ternal resistance are disadvantageo1ls
from the purely electrical rather than
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