SINCE an electrical condenser is a device for storing electricity, it follows that a secondary battery is a condenser—obviously of very large capacity as compared with the electrostatic type of ...

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[AN engineering contributor to whom we have shown Dr. Walls' interesting letter writes: “It has been well known to electricians for the last thirty years that an electrolyte with metal plates in it ...