Edison, who was familiar with battery technology from his earliest days as a telegraph operator, favored battery power but disliked the standard lead-acid battery that was then used. In 1900 he set ...

The first authentic account of the new Edison storage battery was presented at the eighteenth annual meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, held in New York May 21. The paper ...

Thomas Edison would be, too. He tried to produce electric vehicles for Ford around 1900. Petroleum-based vehicles dashed his dreams of the electric car, and the battery he wanted to use languished ...