Abstract
THIS book aims chiefly at treating the engineering side of storage batteries, such as the design and installation of a battery equipment, the precautions which have to be taken to maintain such an equipment in good working order, and the various accessory devices which have to be used therewith. The chemical side of the subject is treated very briefly; the first chapter, of less than a dozen pages, is all that is allotted to general theory. In the remaining chapters of the first part the characteristics of lead cells are considered in detail; the leading types of cell are described, and there is the usual series of illustrations of different grids. Considering that the book makes no pretence of being a complete treatise on accumulators, we think that much of the matter here included might with advantage have been omitted, and the material sifted with more discrimination. There are also several instances of carelessness; for example, the author speaks of forming Planté plates in a solution of litharge in potassium, a mistake repeated three or four times in a couple of pages. The treatment of the electrical and mechanical sides is less open to objection, and many useful suggestions are given as the results of actual experience.
Storage Battery Engineering.
By Lamar Lyndon Pp. viii + 382. (New York: McGraw Publishing Co., 1903.) Price 3 dollars.
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S., M. Storage Battery Engineering . Nature 69, 78 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/069078b0
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