. Electrical world. FIG. 2.^EXHIBIT of NATIONAL ELECTRIC .\UTOMUBlLti. was shown of apparatus including a rotary reversed, taking thedirect current of the house and delivering single-phase current to themercury arc rectifier, whose operation could be witnessed throughglass. This rectifier straightened out the current and delivered itto a set of Exide cells and the quantity of current going into thebattery could be noted from the indicating instruments on the attracted a great deal of attention, especially as experimentswere made to show flexibility under a range of frequency and und
. Electrical world. FIG. 2.^EXHIBIT of NATIONAL ELECTRIC .\UTOMUBlLti. was shown of apparatus including a rotary reversed, taking thedirect current of the house and delivering single-phase current to themercury arc rectifier, whose operation could be witnessed throughglass. This rectifier straightened out the current and delivered itto a set of Exide cells and the quantity of current going into thebattery could be noted from the indicating instruments on the attracted a great deal of attention, especially as experimentswere made to show flexibility under a range of frequency and underother varying conditions. Mr. Churchward stated that he had beencharging storage batteries for practical work in this way for sixmonths Fig. I.—General View of the Automobile Show, Madison Square Garden, New York. 194 ELECTRICAL WORLD and ENGINEER. Vol. XLIII, No. 4- The Baker Electric Vehicle Company had a very interestingdisplay, containing possibly the greatest novelty in the direction ofelectric vehicles, one with the Elwell-Parker motor placed in the fronthood usually occupied by the gasoline engine and driving at rightangles on the axle shaft by means of beveled gearing. The vehicle wasa surrey equipped with a 25/2-hp motor and 24 cells of storage battery. The Electric Contract Company showed a line of its dry bat-teries and sparking outfits. The exhibit was in charge of The United Electrical jManufacturing Company had dry bat-teries on RusH^toRE and Poiner. of the Rushmore Dynamo Works,
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