The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-05-27
ED|SON'S BATTERY
Big Plant to Be Bstab-
lished to Manufacture
It.

Howard Hayes, counsel for Thomas A.
Edison, has drawn up papers for the in
corporation of the Edison Storage Bat
terry Company, with an authorized capital
running into the millions. The papers are
signed by Mr.. Edison and several of
the largest financiers in the State, and
the new company will do business at Glen
Ridge, where large tract of land has
already been secured. The main office of
the company will be in this city, with a
branch in New York
The incorporators named in the papers
are Herman E. Dick, of Chicago. Walter
s. Mallory and William E. Gilmore. of
Orange. The stock is divided into ten
Thousand shares of par value of 800
each, and authority is reserved to in
crease the capital Walter s. Mallory is
named as the agent of the corporation.
upon whom processes may be served.
Ihe new company will proceed at once
70 enlarge the present factory buildings
on the Glen Ridge property, and orders
VIII be given out Immediately for the spe-
clal machinery necessary in the construc-
tlon OF the new electric battery.
Mr. Edison has already announced tho
completion of this, his latest dieco,a,.,, :,
electrical science. He declares that tas+s
.or deterlorat1on have been made, cover
ing d period OF more than three months
anu thar the results of these tests prove
that the new battery retains its electro
motive force for a longer period than anv
Storage battery heretofore placed on the
market.
According to Mr.. Edisen's statements
MS invention consists in the use of n;cl-sl
and iron, in place of the heavier neral
lead, which has been used for the COW
struction of storage batteries sinca their
nrst construction in France nearly twan-
ty-five years ago
rms saving in weight, Mr.. Edison saws
is 1uily one-third, and the eleetromotiva
power is increased about a precise ratio
that IS with an old style battery a given
venlcie might be driven twenty-five miles
WIN the new battery the same vehicle
can be driven seventy~five miles. The
initial cost of the batteries, Mr.. Edison
says, will be about the same. hut its
greater mobility and increased area of
efficiency reduces the expense to, a fienra
placing the storage battery nrinc,nle of
electric propulsion within reach of the
general public
Another decided Improvement In the
new battery is its increased life. The old
style battery was constructed on the wen
known chemical law by which ordinary
red oxide of lead was converted into
the peroxide on the admission of alaotr;-
cal energy through anodes, properlv MO-
vided In the new battery the meta,lic
salts used are more fixed than the Lead
oxides, and consequently a longer life is
guaranteed to the new discovery.
In the experiments Mr.. Edison conduct
ed to test the deterioration of the new
battery, he discovered the remarkable
fact that the more staple salts retain
their power of chemical reaction for in
definite periods The new salts respond
also more readily to the calls for ehemi-
cal reaction which sets up when calls are
made upon the battery for the electrical
power contained therein This is an i'm
portant factor in storage batteries. for
atmospheric changes heretofore had
largely affected their responsiveness.
Scientific journals, discussing the new
invention, have devoted a great deal of
attention to the possible use Of the new
battery as a means of vehicle propulsion
The decrease in weight and increase of
electromotiye units contained in a given
space, as claimed for the new battery.
removes the difficulty which has always
existed for the general adoption of stored
electricity. These journals declare that
the qualities of the new battery remove
all these obstacles, and they forecast a
horseless future. when trucks, carriages.
and all vehicles will run silently, smoke
lessly and without the slislitiy unplea-
sant features of the best type of automo-
bile