EDISON'S NEW BATTERY.
KEM AUK ABLE TESTS. Mr Edison's long-promised storage battery' which, the inventor claims, will solve some of tha fnost difficult problems of ths age und reduce't.ho cost of traction enormously, has been given its first public trial at New Jersey. The "battery -was inslaiHed tri a special tranrway-car carrying 24 passengers. It was equipped with 210 cells, arranged >.nder the scats. Of these cells 200 were for propulsion tm-i 10 for lighting, the total Jiorse-power being 50. TThe ear vtook ,n J O-fopt nrith ease and ran undsr seemingly perfect ccntrol. Electrical engineers, while reserving public comment, adni.tted ih.\t the battery had done "int. its inventor. claimed for it. A ■ati«-.i test is to be given in Now \*ork>. 'lh'i cost of driving thrtram-woy-car' with the| new battery is ja half-penny *i lrtilei Mr Edison believes 1-hat th:« battery is destined toy revolutionise motor traffic.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5489, 30 March 1910, Page 4
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148EDISON'S NEW BATTERY. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5489, 30 March 1910, Page 4
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