100 DAYS UNDER WATER.
UATTJOtY FOR SUBMARINES. It was announced in New York on April 10 that Mr Edison had perfected at his laboratory at East Orange (Jersey) a new form of storage battery ior submarines, which will do away with the chief danger now existing in tho operations of under-water craft—the danger of chlorine poisoning.
The only metals in tho new batteries will be nickel and stool, lead being dispensed with; a solution purifies the air, absorbing the carbonic acid gas exhaled from the lungs. It would the ref on) be possible for a submarine so equipped to remain under water for 100 days without danger of asphyxiation to the crew.
The new battery has been accepted by the United States Government and will bo installed in the new American submarine LB. now under construction at the Portsmouth Navy Yard,
The American Naval Department experiments boldly. Mr Edison’s etorage battery, which was to enable motor vehicles to run for 100 mile? or so without recharging, and weighing only a few pounds, announced long ago, seems still to require perfecting.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3981, 14 July 1915, Page 2
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180100 DAYS UNDER WATER. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3981, 14 July 1915, Page 2
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