Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies (1881)
Association of Engineering Societies (U.S.) · New York, [etc.] Board of Managers · leaf 21
STORAGE BATTERIES IN MILLS AND FACTORIES. 5 operate power and lights from the same system without undue flickering of the lamps; it has also made it possible to operate highly fluctuating loads on a minimum amount of generating apparatus ; and, as these two properties are the ones most needful in… … Fig. 4. Before proceeding, however, it seems advisable to look into the construction of a battery a little and see exactly what its action is. Essentially, a battery consists of positive and negative elec- trodes in a containing vessel immersed in electrolyte of some kind. In other words, we have…
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