EDISON'S STORAGE BATTERY.
Among the sooreis of inventions (says the "Standard") that (have.engaged Ms thoughts educe the electric Sight wias realised, Mr Edison regards his snew storage 'battery as the greatest aiccom.plishment of his life. This nickel (and Hteel (battery is destdned to revolutionise certain phianses of tramspontiation. It has 'been for come time operated successfully in a single tramway oar. The Seach storage 'biattery iiradn, which is going to the Cuban Railway of Havana, in its trial run from New Yoirk to Long Retach, in Lomg Island,, 35 miles away,""msaidie" thie formal er/irlamtoe of the storage battery into the regula.r raiilwiay field.
Mr Edisoox de said to have spent .ten years of labour and between £600,000 and £800,000 upon the battery/ The 25 mile run® each way • was made dn about 55_ manutes, with a net cost far power of less than Bs. Eyerytniog -worked smootMy—lso . railway, financial, and engineering men who';rode in the .train testifying to the reanarkaJWe re^ suits aahieved. Each car, wJiich was of the standard Tiai'lway piatbtem, was I equipped .with 200 of the cells placed undea- the seats, the train ibeing worked on the Spir'ague multiple uiwit system. the /br&nich. lines- thfe storage battery train is expected to imafce its way quiokly for economioaL operation.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 13 December 1912, Page 7
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211EDISON'S STORAGE BATTERY. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 13 December 1912, Page 7
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