River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-28
STORING ELECTRICITY.
The Cleveland Mans Rivalry 10 the
French Inventor.
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After years of patient and quiet in
vestigation and experim enting, Mr..
Charles Brush, the electrician, has COM
pleted new invention which he con-
siders to be an ample lGward for his
life Of study and work. He has sue
ceeded in perfecting method of stor-
ing electricity This is consumma-
ton to secure which the greatest elect
ricians of Europe have been laboring
for number of years. The use of
electricity is no doubt in its infancy yet,
and the rising generation is likely to
see most astonishing things accom-
plished with it. Mr.. Brush, in his cleo
trio light, has already furnished the
world with one OF its most practical
applications, but his new accomplish
ment bids fair to extend its use as a
motive power to great lengths.
Faure, a French inventor, very
recently discovered method of stor-
ing electricity, and to use his method
a company with large capital has been
| formed in Paris. Faure's invention
was an improvement over the invention
of Plante, made some years ago.
Plante, a good many years ago, des-
cribed and used on many occasions
what he calls a secondary battery.
Faure took that secondary battery,
made some changes to it and additions
to it, and called it his invention 1t
was merely modification of Plante's
secondary battery, though, of course,
better perfected. The news that Faure
had invented method of "bottling
electricity" as it was called, attracted
much attention in England and Anne
RIGA, and was much noticed recently in
| the Eastern press.
! What NJ Faure describes as his in
vention was accomplished by Mr..
Brush years ago, but the latter was not
satisfied with such poor results. What
he has since perfected goes far beyond
what any other has yet accomplished.
Mr.. Brushs invention is q secondary
battery in the same sense as is Plante's
and Faure's. There is no essential diff
ference in the basis of the three inven-
tons. The improvements of Mr. Brush
are in the method of storing and in the
amount Of electricity capable of being
stored in a given time or given space.
| The details of his method are entirely
different from those of the French in
ventors, and do not infringe upon the
rights of either of those gentlemen.
Mr.. Brush uses for his storage
reservoirs metel plates, so arranged that
they are capable of receiving very
large charge of electricity and of hold
ing it for an indefinite time. The storage
reservoirs vary in size as desired and
may be transported from place to place
and used as desired. They may be put
toany use ofwhich electricity is possible.
| They can be taken about in wagons by
day and left at houses of citizens, like
so much ice or kerosene, and used at
night. Each citizen may then run his
own electric light as he pleases. The
plates can be put on street-cars, con-
nected with the axles and made to run
the cars without horses. Steam cars
may be ultimately run in the same way.
Mr.. Brush recently stated that in a
given space he was able to store double
as much electricity as Faure.
"Mr. Brush has been working at
| this matter for years, and he is man
who says nothing of his work until he
is satisfied with it. His last invention
is only now case of economy. For
some uses it will be cheaper, for others
more expensive, than the present
methods of obtaining power The prac-
teal character Of the invention is set
tied, and it is simply a matter of ex-
pense. The engines can be run and
electricity accumulated during the day
and then at night two sets of lights can
be run, one set by the power stored up.
An indefinite amount of electricity can
be stored up in this way and used as
wanted. The details of the method
cannot be made public, but will be pub
| lished in a short time.