Edison battery

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The Alkaline Storage Battery.—The alkaline or Edison battery is made up of an iron (negative) and a nickel sesquioxide (positive) electrode in potassium hydroxide solution it may be represented as... 

Edison Batteries for New Ford Cars Automobile Man Discusses Possibilities of New Storage Systems with Its Inventor, The New York Times (January 11, 1914). According to the article, Henry Ford also said, Mr. Edison and I have been working for some years on an electric automobile which would be cheap and practicable. Cars have been built for experimental purposes, and we are satisfied now that the way is clear to success. ... 

Edison Battery Is No Longer a Myth, The New York Times (October 16, 1910). The article reported dramatically on the car s performance and its power source It seems incredible that the power of streams and coal can be changed to an invisible force capable of being stored in the little steel cans of this battery to be drawn on at will. ... 

The late-night television host Jay Leno, an avid car collector, has a 1909 Baker Electric vehicle that still runs with its original Edison batteries. 

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The cell potential has an average value of 1.25 V. Although the overall reaction does not apparently involve the electrolyte, the KOH does in fact participate in each of the half-cell reactions. Although the Edison battery is designed and suitable for regular cyclic service, the efficiency of charge is only 60% thus, it has now been almost completely replaced by the more efficient (72%) nickel-cadmium battery, which is itself inferior in energy efficiency to the lead-acid battery with an efficiency of about 80%. 

McGraw Edison Corporation, Edison Battery Division, PO Box 28, Bloomfield 07003, New Jersey Primary batteries, zinc-air secondary batteries, nickel-iron, nickel-cadmium, zinc-air. 

Nickel-cadmium and nickel-iron are prime examples of rechargeable (secondary) batteries, invented in 1901 by Waldemar Jungner and Edison, respectively. In the 1920s and 1930s, such batteries powered radios prior to rural clectrificadnn. The sealed nickel-cadmium battery is now the most widely used battery in consumer products. 

The Edison dry cell nickel/cadmium battery and the Jungers nickel/iron cell are developed work on these endeavors lasts until 1905. 

Fig. 22-10. Cells from Edison and lead storage batteries (schematic).

H2SO( concentration during use of a lead cell provides the basis for the convenient hydrometer test of the state of discharge of an automobile battery. The hydrometer measures the density of the electrolyte solution, thus indicating how much of the H2SOi has been consumed. Obviously, this method cannot be used to check an Edison cell since the electrolyte concentration is constant. 

Edison storage battery, 406 Einstein, Albert, 121 Einsteinium, oxidation number, 414 Elastic collision, 6 Electrical nature of atoms, 236 Electrical phenomena, 74 Electrical properties of condensed phases, 78... 

The last group of parameters relates to handling of the batteries. These include the mechanical strength (e.g., with respect to vibrations and shock accompanying transportation), maintenance, and foolproofness (a term introduced by Thomas A. Edison in 1911 as one of the characteristics of storage batteries). 

Edison, Thomas A., Reversible galvanic battery, U.S. patent 678,722, 1901. 

The Ecostar van was Ford s first electric since the time of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. The Ecostar was the first electric vehicle that resembled an actual production car instead of a conversion. It had a recharge port and a battery charging meter. The Ecostar provided a pleasant driv-... 

Nickel(lll) oxide, prepared from a nickel(ii) salt and sodium hypochlorite, is used for the oxidation of alkanols in aqueous alkali [46]. Residual nickel(Ii) oxide can be re-activated by reaction with sodium hypochlorite. Nickel oxides have also long been used in the manufacture of the positive pole in the Edison nickel-iron rechargeable battery, now largely superseded by die lead-acid accumulator, and in the Jungner nickel-cadmium batteries used as button cells for calculators [47]. Here, prepared nickel oxide is pressed into a holding plate of perforated nickel. Such prepared plates of nickel(lli) oxide have been proposed as reagent for the oxidation, in alkaline solution, of secondary alcohols to ketones and primary alcohols to carboxylic acids [48]. Used plates can be regenerated by anodic oxidation. 

The system, which is of practical importance (Edison storage battery, electrocatalysis in organic synthesis), is the NiOOH Ni(OH)2 couple (electrode). Somewhat surprisingly - since it is a widely studied and applied electrode - the mechanism and the true nature of the oxidized species are not fully understood yet [1, 2, 16]. The formal potential depends on the KOH concentration and is ca. 1.3 V. It follows that it is unstable in aqueous solutions and is also an oxidizing agent for various organic compounds. 

The nickel hydroxide electrode is used since decades in the mckel-iron(Edison)-or nickel-cadmium(Jungner)-storage battery Here the anodes consist mainly of nickel oxide powder pressed into a support and current feeder, whilst for electro-organic oxidations and electroanalytical measurements a thin nickel oxide hydroxide layer on a nickel support is used. 

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