Science: Priest's Battery

Father Edmundo Almeida, Spanish Jesuit priest, has invented a new type electric storage battery. U. S. students who had heard him lecture on his battery at Cadiz, Seville and San Sebastian, Spain, during the spring, last week said that it was more efficient than the common acid battery or the Edison alkaline battery. The Argentine magazine Estudios gave details.

Electric Battery. An electric battery is a collection of electrolytic cells. The action of such cells depends upon the fact that different metals and their salts have different electric potentialities. When pieces of different...

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