Scientific American Volume 88 Number 10 (March 1903) . the early days of commercialstorage battery manufacture—built up a large businesswith its chloride accumulator. In the various suitsfor infringement instituted by this company againstother concerns, the validity of these patents was alwaysupheld. Consequently, the storage battery designerswere forced to fall back on the original Plante type ofplate, which has been much improved en ihis account. Now that the Brush patents have become public prop-erty, inventors can make use of this type of plate instill further perfecting storage batteries;


Scientific American Volume 88 Number 10 (March 1903) . the early days of commercialstorage battery manufacture—built up a large businesswith its chloride accumulator. In the various suitsfor infringement instituted by this company againstother concerns, the validity of these patents was alwaysupheld. Consequently, the storage battery designerswere forced to fall back on the original Plante type ofplate, which has been much improved en ihis account. Now that the Brush patents have become public prop-erty, inventors can make use of this type of plate instill further perfecting storage batteries; and it is tobe hoped that eventually, perhaps by the combinationof the two forms, a well-nigh perfect storage cell, willbe devised. Tori ill as—Bread or I lie Spaiiisli-Ainerican People, In conjunction with the systematic effort made in re-cent years by the United States to make known inEurope the food value, or rather, table value, of Indiancorn, it may interest many housekeepers to know howtortillas are made. These tortillas are, as many know,. MAP SHOWING PROPOSED EXTENSIONS OF THE SUBWAY AND ELEVATED LINES IN NEW YORK. tinued as such to Bronx Park. The proposed extensionsinclude the continuance of the elevated structure alongthe eastern side of Bronx Park to the suburbs of Wake-field and Mount Vernon, while another branch is pro-posed, to extend along the Southern Boulevard, thenwesterly on 180th Street to a connection with the ThirdAvenue line of the Manhattan Elevated Railroad. As the additional lines proposed, especially thosein the subway, will require several years to complete,and as, during this interval, it is absolutely essentialthat early relief measures be provided, it is proposed tomake immediate extensions of the Manhattan Elevatedsystem, besides laying additional tracks on certain speci-fied avenues. In the first place, it is proposed to doublethe capacity of the Second Avenue line, by the addi-tion of two tracks from Harlem River to ChathamSquare, where t


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