[Milsurplus] FW: ID radio battery ?
Glenn Little
[email protected]
Tue, 19 Nov 2002 22:42:03 -0500
From a Google search.
... Among his later noteworthy inventions was the Edison storage battery
(an alkaline,
nickel-iron storage battery)
I do not know what equipment it was for. Suspect that it might have been
for a telephone or telegraph.
73
Glenn
WB4UIV
At 05:19 PM 11/19/02 -0600, Ralph Hogan wrote:
>I received this message below asking for help in an Id of a battery. Any
>clues out there?
>Tnx,
>Ralph W4XE
>
>Subject: radio battery
>
>
>Sir:
>
>I was advised to contact you about a battery I have. I'd like to know what
>it is, and if it has any value. It is a metal box, with a hinged lid,
>mostly painted OD. Inside are three cells connected in series, with leads
>to the top where there are wing nuts, marked + and-. It is 9 1/2" tall, 6"
>wide, and 4" thick with two mounting straps on the back. About the size of
>a 1 gallon paint thinner can. The tag on top is clearly legible, it says:
>
>SIGNAL CORPS US ARMY
>Edison Storage Battery
>Type B. B. 4
>Order No. 41705
>Date Feb 27, 1918
>Edison Storage Battery Co
>Orange NJ
>
>There is no corrosion inside the box, and the three cell caps are not stuck,
>there doesn't seem to be any liquid in the cells, although I didn't turn it
>upside down.
>
>Any information you can provide will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
>
>[Ralph Hogan]
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