MOMENTOUS INVENTION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 252, 22 October 1907, Page 5

MOMENTOUS INVENTION.

NEW STORAGE BATTERY. OF GREAT CAPACITY. WIIX BEVOI/OTIONISE TRANSPORT. ; (By Cable:—Press Association.—Copyright.) ' ' : * —— _ '" *■ ' ■ £ ' NEW TOR?:, October 21. There is reason to believe that' the greatest problem of applied electricity the power of storage on a great scalehas at last been solved. Mr. Edison has announced-that he has perfected a compact electric storage battery of almost unlimited capacity; which, besides its hundred other benefits, will have the effect of cheapening and revolu? tionising transport. The horse, says Mr. Edison, is destined to disappear from the streets, ■ excepting for pleasure, adding:—"Everyone owning a horse will soon be able to-afford an automobile." [Mr. Thomas Alva Edison, who is now 58 years of age, although his right to fiiaim the principle of many of his •nventions as original has "been dis puted, has placed before the world more novel mechanical appliances than any other living man. Beginning life as a newsboy, he discovered his true bent in youth, and has for many years devoted himself to the work of applying the ideas of a singularly fertile mind to a large field of practical usefulness. His inventions include machines for quadruples nnd sextuplex telegraphic transmission, the phonograph, incandescent lamp, kinetoseope, and many other instruments now universally used. It was understood that he had for a long time past beeri engaged in solving the two. problems of electric storage and the treatment of low-grade ore.]