TO REVOLUTIONISE TRAFFIC.
: '.Mr: Edison's long-promised.;, storage battery'lwtteh, thcT.inventor' claims, will solve somo /iof'.'thev.iSost '.diSieult "traffio problems of ;t-he,-age..and\'r«lnco. the cost of 'traction- enormously,, wis given its first .public, trial; at New Jersey, on January, .was installed in a 'special;.- tram way-car,;.-'carrying;,,, twenty-four.-passengers; -It,, was with 210..ce115,. arranged under -ihe-.-.seats. . Of these! cells 200 were;for-propulsion.and 10 for.-lighting,- the total horse-p'o.wer being fifty, ''-.' •■ ■': -."-:;n- x/ ,i;The ; car-took a ten-foot grado'.iwith ease and ran easily under . seemingly perfect control, Electrical engineers,; -while reserving public comment,, admitted that .the, battery had :done,what ; ,jts:.;invcntoT claimed for.it.-':-The,cost .of driving the tramway'-car-with the./newi-battery- is said ,to:..:bo:a halfpenny-a Edison ■believes i that-the. batteryjAS-'destiued to revolutio'nise.inictor :traffic; -is--.-,' :
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 763, 11 March 1910, Page 4
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110TO REVOLUTIONISE TRAFFIC. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 763, 11 March 1910, Page 4
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