. The street railway review . resident Geo. A. Ford, describeshis battery as follows: By our construction it is physically impossible for theactive material or the conductors of one electrode to con-tact with the active material or conductors of the otherelectrode. Hence, the electrodes of our cell are abso-lutely separate, and cannot come into electrical touch. Another impoitant feature of our battery is that wedo not rely upon anything like a lead plate for carryingthe active material. We have chambers or spaces inwhich the active material is lodged, and which is sub-jected directly to the l
. The street railway review . resident Geo. A. Ford, describeshis battery as follows: By our construction it is physically impossible for theactive material or the conductors of one electrode to con-tact with the active material or conductors of the otherelectrode. Hence, the electrodes of our cell are abso-lutely separate, and cannot come into electrical touch. Another impoitant feature of our battery is that wedo not rely upon anything like a lead plate for carryingthe active material. We have chambers or spaces inwhich the active material is lodged, and which is sub-jected directly to the liquid, and is so situated that it can-not by any possibility escape from where it is example, if a porous pot be used for containing oneelectrode, we employ one or more perforated lead tubes,and the space between the pot and the tube or tubes isfilled with, active material. The tube or tubes are filledwith liquid, and the active material is thus saturated fromwithin the tubes through the perforations upon one In the first place, we have no plates to buckle. Oursis not a plate battery, and it does not rely on plates oranything like a plate to support the active material. Theactive material for one of the electrodes,—and it may beeither electrode—is contained within a porous vessel orchamber having porous division walls, and the two elec-trodes are separated from one another by a porous wallwhich renders it impossible for the active material of oneto come in contact with the other in any way. In thelead plate batteries with which everybody is familiar, themoment that any considerable quantity of active materialwas dislodged from any one of the plates it was liable tofall into such position as to short circuit the cell, either bj-lodging between the plates, or making connection at thebottom. Again, under severe strains the buckling of the leadplates was not only liable to dislodge the active material,but to make short circuits between adjacent plates bydirect
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