The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-02-25
A NEW STORAGE BATTERY.
Edison Said to Have Solved the Great
Electrical Problem.

NEW YORK. Feb. 25.-Thomas a. Edfsea
I has invented a real storage battery. With
out going into technicaIities it can bebrief-
ly stated that in a storage battery is
stored enough chemical energy to produce
! an eleerie current
Electricity can be tapped from a storage
battery, SO to speak And. Of course. the
current can be used in any one Of fnnum-
cradle ways TO do any of the innumerabIe
things done by the current produced at a
stationary plant. A real practical stor-
age battery such as Mr.. Edisoa has in
vented has been the dream. the cesire. the
goal Of electricians for many decades
such storage battery must not be
heavy and must be compact. 1t must be
/ cheap. It must be so constructed as to
be easily and cheapIy charged and able TO
/ noid the charge for a long time There
must be no danger of oTerCharging It
] mat Edison has discovered ipst such a
( marvellous storage battery cHa I've posi-
lively stated, although the fast that be
has been working on il fer six months has
been Kept profound secret 1t can be
/, stated on the authority Of Louis E Bonn
elSier. OF the firm of great corporation
lawyers, Dill. BomeisIer & Baldwin
M Bameisler makes this statement:
Mr.. Edison is working on a storage bat
terry. He has been working on il for seY-
eraI years, and he expects to put one on
the market. He has been blazing an en-
tlreIy new trail His battery is in the
way OF discovery, purely A discovery
though II would seem impossible. It is
1 built upon an entirely q. ferent plan from
any other storage battery II IS something
absolutely new
10
aHalr- Dir Edison is going South. and
when he returns in the spring there VIII
De some storage battery talk The thing
wan not De an commercial shape until the
Iau, however, for il Will be necessary for
Mr.. Edison to establish d factory
Inc invention of . real, practical, cheap
storage battery, with the properties here
described, VIII reTolutionize maIufae-
lures, commerce
With such storage battery in exist
ence, and cheap, coal will cost little more
. than sand, for there viii be few uses TO
which coal can be put Steam. smoke,
SCOT. ashes, viii nearly disappear
Sea travel, naval warfare. viii be won
derfully changed. So viii the construction
of steamships. for the coal bunkers viii
Re infinitely smaller. Storage batteries,
not steam engines, viii prepel the steam
ers, whose voyages VIII be faster and can
be longer, because there vii be more room
Tor provisions
There need be no coaling stations for
| these huge, floating fighting machines,
the hodern battleships. 4 feet can keep
at sea as long as its provisions last So.
in all probability, there viii be fewer vars
for wars will be mOre destructive
There viii be no more trolley lines. nor
trolley cars; locomotives viii move almost
silently; steam and gasoline automobiles
viii be Of the past
Residences and Offices will Fo-.~o,
. lighted by gas. but in each building there
will be private power plant sufficient TO
give all the light necessary From this
plant, also, all the necessary heat will be
taken. The daily housework. too. will in
great part be done by the power from the
private plants.
Production viii also be revolutionized.
Farmers will run their pIcws by electricity.
The produce viii De raised on soil titled
by machines run by storage batteries.