[Milsurplus] Edison/Tesla battle finally ends in NYC.

[C. Whitaker]

de WB2CPN
In the small village in Eastern Kentucky, where I
was born in 1928, there was no electricity, but the
"Big Man" who was also the store keeper, had a
"light plant" out back.  It had two tiers of cells
and an auto-start one-cylinder engine.  I'm sure
it was a 32-volt system.   We kids would wait
to watch the engine start.  Magic.   The railroad
there  used  Edison cells for their signal semaphores
along the track.  I've watched the men re-new the
big glass cells.  They're the ones with the
"crow's foot" on the bottom.  To prevent evaporation
they poured some kind of oil on the liquid in the cell.
TRIVIA.
73  Clete


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