The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment . age Batteries at apower-house in America was at Merrill, Wisconsin, where, inJanuary, 1895, a series of two hundred and forty ChlorideAccumulators was attached to the Dynamo of the railway andlighting plants. When these Storage Batteries are full, thestreet cars can be operated without the Dynamo for hours at atime. Understand, that the Storage Batteries are not on thecars, but in the power-house. But suppose your Electric LightDynamo stops at midnight. If you attached a Storage B
The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment . age Batteries at apower-house in America was at Merrill, Wisconsin, where, inJanuary, 1895, a series of two hundred and forty ChlorideAccumulators was attached to the Dynamo of the railway andlighting plants. When these Storage Batteries are full, thestreet cars can be operated without the Dynamo for hours at atime. Understand, that the Storage Batteries are not on thecars, but in the power-house. But suppose your Electric LightDynamo stops at midnight. If you attached a Storage Batteryto your light fixture or electrolier during the day-time, and :a THE El RESIDE UNIVERSITY, thus charged the Accumulator (Storage Battery), then, aftermidnight you could have electric light as long as the Accumu-lator stayed alive. This is what would happen: While thecurrent was acting in the acids of the battery, one form of leadwas changing into another. When the intruding Electricityceased, the plus plates unloaded into the minus plates, carryingback with them the matter that was deposited before, and. Fig. 33. PLANTERS BATTERY (PARIS), AS HE PERFECTED ITBEFORE HE DIED. setting up a current of electricity in the wires that led out of theAccumulator. The man who first tried to do this was GastonPlante, and all who have reaped benefits from the StorageBattery, owe to him their thanks, for though he did not makeit pay, his lead plates are today the real basis of the ChlorideAccumulator. He lived and toiled in order that countlessthousands might be the happier. What advantages does the Electric Launch possess ? The batteries are placed around the boat under the seats,giving twice the room that can be found on a steam is little pleasure in running a steam launch, owing tothe intensity of watchfulness which the owner or engineermust give to the many cocks, registers and gauges. Nearlyevery owner speaks of this strain. In hot weather, when thes§ ELECTRICITY. 73 b
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