Battery Basics
Nickel-Iron Battery Drawbacks: A Failed Idea
Thomas Edison was searching for a better rechargeable battery at the beginning of the twentieth century.…
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Nickel-Iron Battery History You May Not Know
A rechargeable nickel-ion battery has nickel-oxide-hydroxide positive plates, and iron negative plates with an electrolyte…
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Batteries in History at Key Moments
It’s all too easy to forget the role that batteries played at key moments in…
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Was Edison’s First Light Bulb a Fraud?
Thomas Edison displayed the first light bulb with a long operating life in October 1879.…
Battery Experiments
Experiment to Make a Light Bulb
There’s been a slight change of plans from last week.We came across something that challenged…
Battery Basics
Alternating Between Types of Electric Current
There are two kinds of electric current invented – or should we say discovered –…
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Edison Nickel-Iron Battery Energy Cycle
We continue to explore the workings of the Edison nickel-iron battery, following the advice in…
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Edison NiFe Batteries in More Detail
We came across a rare handbook that the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies published in…
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Thomas Edison’s Nickel-Iron Batteries
Thomas Edison had a preoccupation with electricity from his early days as a telegraph operator.…
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Edison-Lalande Cell Signals U.S. Interest
Early battery development was largely a European affair. This seems logical, because the established academic…