Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-25
ELECTRICAL STORAGE.
Experiments with a New Form or Bat.
tery-Lscture by President Henry
Horton.

NEW YORK, April 24.-President Henry
Morton lectured at the Steven, Institute. Ho-
hoken, last evening, before the New York
Z Electrical Society, on THE Storage of Elec-
tricity," and exhibited some interesting ex-
periments with q new form OF Storage bat
terry, which is controlled by a corporation
org ,nized for its construction here. The
company owning the rights to the device is
the Electric Accumulator Company, which
was recently Incorporated with 4 capital of
IS, 100000. The battery consists of plates,
each made up OF fine lattice-work of me.
tallic lesd, filled in with a porous mass
which is, in each alternate plate, either me-
tallic lead or the black peroxide of lead
The manner OF operation Of these cells in
charging and dischargins was explained,
and the important part played By the abb
sorbed or accludsd gases was pointed ou' /.
The tests m zde by the speaker showed that
the cells Wsuld each yield about thirty two
ampsres for nine hours, with sn eectromo-
tive force OF about 22.l0 volts. This quantity
of current would supply forty-tour of Mr..
Edison's incanlescent lamps of sixieen-can-
die power, and lie intensity would make il
necessary TO employ only fifty OF the cells to
obtain sufficient electromo i've force to over.
come the resistance of such lamps. The en-.
tire weight of each cell, ready for work, is
eighty pounds, and thus, as simple rule, il
| might be stated that for each light oil
ak cen. candle power, for one hour, ten
| pounds Of -b-IJcry should be provided i!
| the battery be used safely as q reservoir
to contain the entire current re.
| quired. Ii was pointed out that the
| bat cry in many cases would only be required
| to act 20 a regulator, not showing the entire
| amount OF electricity used, cut only taking
up 4 temporary excess and providing for q
| similar deficiency. Under such cond ,tious il
wou'd not need to have csp,city TO supply
more than one or two hours Of current, and
| nearly all the current during normal work.
| log eould 60 cir,c j. from the dynamo ma
chine TO the lamp, he fluctuations Of mo.
mentary stOpps g-s only being taken care oil
| by the battery. 10 illustrate this, the lighls
| oil tae room were connected directly with a
| dynamo, and It's current was caused to fuc.
| tuate 50 that the lights were extremely irreg.
| ular. As 5000, however, as the battery wac
also Connect d, 50 that any excess of current
| would flow into it aud any deficiency be sup
| piled by il, the light' beclme perfectly steady
| In the next place, the use oil the storage bat
te'i.s SO meaes OF driving street cars was
| touched upon President Morton said tn al
| measurements, which he had repeated upon
these batteries whose weight was eighty
| pounds each, number Of times, showed that
each of them contained energy equal TO about
100000 foot pounds, or euch as could de
velop one horsepower for one hour, nearly.
In other words, the energy stored in one OF
these boxes, il fully converted into mechaa-
ical work, could take "bobt.il car" full of
! passengers, across town or from one end Of
| the city to the other; in fact, could take the
place of horse for an hour.