Edison Storage Battery.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 3, 2 January 1906, Page 51

Edison Storage Battery.

The new Edison storage electric battery (writes the Rural New Yorker) is now said to be ready for the market. Great things were anticipated from the device. It was expected that a windmill or other power could be used to generate electricity, and that this light battery when stored could be picked up by two men and carried to any point on the farm where work was required. Thus, it was hoped that the farm-power problem would be solved, but the actual facts do not seem to give much body to these dreams. The battery seems to be designed for running automobiles at a high speed. It will weigh about forty pounds per horse power, and can be charged only from a regular dynamo. It is quite likely that the principle will be in time applied so that most small machines can be operated, but the trouble on the farm will be to generate the electricity. The cost of a dynamo and fixtures is considerable.