The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-17
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ELECTRICITY ON TAP.
Stored In Foxes to be Used When Occasion
ReqDires-A Novel Contrivance.

Stored I'm Foxes to be Used When Occasion
ReqDires-A Novel Contrivance.
| On board the steamship Labradcr.of tn,
French line, which arrived yesterday. sew
eral wooden cases of about the size of soar
boxes were stored. Mr.. William Lockland
an electrical engineer, under whose care the
cases came, connected an Edison lamp will
a series OF them by means of wires and, on
| turning abutton. the lamp shown brightly.
In the boxes electricity is kept, to be drawn
offas needed.
"The electricity was stored in them as far
back SIS April "a, be said. They were then
shipped from Paris to Havre, and taken
aboard the Labrador. On Saturday evening.
April %, we lighted some electric lamps
from them all the way across the ocean and
have drawn Off only small quantity of the
electricity stored in them. The lamps
ranged from 5tO 50 candle power
The apparatus is known as the Faure &C
cumulator. Its function is simply to store
up electricity for use when it is wanted.
The accumulator is placed in circuit with
an electric dynamo" and the electricity
transmitted to il is stored up. The packed
up electricity can then be sent anywhere,
kept any necessary length OF time. aud will
be gradually and equitably discharged
along any circuit taat may be attached to
the apparatus.
The fact that the storage Of electricity is pos
possible has long been known. The Leytien
jar stores electricity, but gives il nearly ell off
IN one discharge as soon a circuit is made
About twenty years ago Gascon Plante
found that lead plates, frequently charged
with electricity under certain conditions
acquired the power of storing electricity
and parting with it gradually. But be could
not get his discovery into the
shape of a practical apparatus. This WAS
done by ". Camille Alphonse FauTe
Something over year ago.It aid not attract
public attention until May, 1881. when Sir
William Thompson published a description.
OF 1t. The apparatus is simple in construc-
tions a sheet of lead, perforated with small
holes, is coated with a layer of red lead on
both sides. Against each face of red lead is
laid sheet OF parchment The plate thus
overlaid is sewn up in a cloth Jacket with
the exception of a small portion of one cor
ner, left bare for the purpose of connecting
plates together in n metallic circuit A
wooden case such as one OF those on the
Labrador. contained fourteen such plates.
They are arranged like yoltaic piles. seven
of the plates being connected by metal
strip at one end of the box 70 form the posi-
tive pole, and the seven alternate plates
connected at the other end of the box
to form the negative pole. There are
several forms of accumulafors but all are
constructed upon this principle. Acdulated
water is poured over the plates so as to cover
them, and the apparatus is ready fer use.
There is no waste of substance, and the same
cell may be charged and recharged. A four
template cell, like those ON the Labrador.
is charged with 300 amphores of electricity
of two volts tension. A sixty-cell battery
would keep fifteen-candle power Edison
light burning for 400 continuous hours.
One of the merits claimed for the invention
is that the current gwen off is a steady. even
flow, so that electric lights fed by it do not