Batteries

Examples

• They are called the two fluid batteries, because in place of a single acidulated bath in which the dissimilar metals were before placed, two different liquid solutions were employed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It has been proved by Mr. Grove that the cost of ordinary batteries necessary to maintain the light in full brilliancy would greatly exceed the price of an equal light from gas. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The great growth of automobile carriages in the past year has greatly stimulated the output of storage batteries. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Admiral Porter proceeded with the preparation of the steamers for their hazardous passage of the enemy's batteries. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Many people now charge their own batteries because of lack of facilities; but I believe central stations will find in this work very soon the largest part of their load. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It was one of the first storage batteries of M. Faure. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• On the night of the 22d of April they ran the batteries, five getting through more or less disabled while one was sunk. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I would also reduce the number of guns to a battery, or the number of batteries, and put the extra teams to the guns taken. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Further elaboration of this method was made later by the addition of rheostats, condensers, and local opposition batteries on long lines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Most of the time he was monkeying with the batteries and circuits, and devising things to make the work of telegraphy less irksome. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The navy was the only escort and protection for these steamers, all of which in getting below had to run about fourteen miles of batteries. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The instruments in the handsome new offices were fastened in their proper places, and operators were strictly forbidden to remove them, or to use the batteries except on regular work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Strong protection to the heavy guns in the water batteries had been obtained by cutting away places for them in the bluff. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Continuing the charge, they also carried batteries Eleven and Twelve to our left, which they turned toward City Point. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Arc lamps were operated from its circuits, and one of the first sets of practicable storage batteries was used experimentally at the station. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• No serious attempt was made to capture the batteries or to drive our troops away. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He then went to the battery-room and knocked all the batteries off on the floor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In an hour we were debarking on the west bank of the Mississippi, just out of range of the batteries at Columbus. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• These batteries were intrenched and the approaches sufficiently protected. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Johnson had had a few Edison lamps in London, lit up from primary batteries, as a demonstration; and in the summer of 1880 Swan had had a few series lamps burning in London. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• At the same time a large naval fleet will be assembled there, and the iron-clads will run the batteries as they did at Mobile. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In arranging a telegraphic circuit, the voltaic batteries and the instruments are introduced at breaks in the telegraph wire. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• On the 4th the enemy opened his batteries upon the place, and was replied to from the gunboats and the garrison. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They were returning at full speed, firing their stern batteries almost continuously. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Accordingly six more steamers were protected as before, to run the batteries, and were loaded with supplies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Nevertheless very efficient electric lamps working by voltaic batteries were devised by Foucault, Duboscq, Deleuil and others as early as 1853. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Both wire and batteries were poor, and one of the men detailed by the authorities to watch the test remarked quietly, in a friendly way: You are not going to have much show. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Parke then threw a line around outside of the captured fort and batteries, and communication was once more established. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This principle and its application in practice were quite correct as regards chemical batteries, but not as regards dynamo machines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• One large company (The Electric Storage Battery Company), manufactured and sold storage batteries for the year ending June 1, 1899, to the amount of $2,387,049. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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