It is announced that Mr Edison has perfected a new iorm. of storage battery for submarines, which will do away with the chief danger now existing in th© operation of underwater craft—the danger of chlorine poisoning, llio w only niotals in the new batteries will be nickel ?Jid steel, the lend being dispensed with. A solution purifies the air of the submerged vessel, absorbing the carbonic ao : d gas exhaled! from tho lungs. It would therefor© bo possible for a submarine ao equipped to reuurn under water 100 days without dancer of asphyxiation to the citw. The new battery has been accepted by the United "States Government, and w.ill be installed in the new An erican submarine LB, row under o( rsi ruction, at the Portsmouth Navy Yard,
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11505, 29 September 1915, Page 4
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