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Russ Huber
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Posted: Fri Oct 23rd, 2009 06:30 am |
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| The lids on these are roughly 7" wide. Everytime I find these things the jars are wasted. There is little doubt in my mind the jars were ceramic. I may ask a college art student to whip me up a few jars on a wheel and glaze them nice and white. Does someone out there have some with the same diameter lids? HOW TALL ARE THE JARS? THANKS! Attached Image (viewed 284 times):
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Posted: Fri Oct 23rd, 2009 06:31 am |
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A complete battery jar off of the web.  Attached Image (viewed 280 times):
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Posted: Fri Oct 23rd, 2009 06:33 am |
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Holy Buckets...are the lids I found much later than the one off the web? 
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Posted: Fri Oct 23rd, 2009 03:41 pm |
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| The Edison LeLand jars are 11 inches high without the top.Hope this helps
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Posted: Fri Oct 23rd, 2009 04:07 pm |
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| It helps, I also learned something. Thank you Tom.
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Posted: Sat Oct 24th, 2009 12:38 am |
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| I went to the Edison museum we have here in Edison NJ (The one I lent my Edison motor too) . They have quite the collection and they said they found like 10 of those battery jars in the tower that stands on what used to be Edison's laboratory. They had two on display and but they had glass jars instead of ceramic.
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Posted: Sat Oct 24th, 2009 04:18 am |
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I seen something similar on the History Channel. The Baghdad battery. They figured the ancient Egyptians used it to light the interior of their pyramids. Not enough O2 for a torch in there, so they figured on these. I am sure that was just the info you were looking for Russ. 
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Russ Huber
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Posted: Sat Oct 24th, 2009 05:30 am |
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These Edison-Lalande primary cells would of had the capacity of roughly 300 ampere hours for things like marine and traction gas engines, fan motors,phonographs,telegraph,turntable motors,railroad and crossing bell signals,electro-plating,minature lamps,X ray coils, and ya...even slot machines.
Psssst...the primary battery makes the juice...the secondary battery is where the juice on the loose is stored.
http://books.google.com/books?id=4y1PAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1&dq=Primary+Batteries+1891&lr=#v=onepage&q=Primary%20Batteries%201891&f=falseLast edited on Sat Oct 24th, 2009 05:44 am by Russ Huber
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Posted: Tue Oct 27th, 2009 11:31 pm |
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here is a spec sheet I have a scan of. I don't remember where it came from but I'll guess it to be late 1890's. I am looking for 3 of the type S and 2 of the type Q if anyone has any for sale.
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Posted: Wed Oct 28th, 2009 03:53 am |
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| I'm going to order myself some jars Al. At 50 cents a piece, how can I go wrong. I'll keep you in mind. Attached Image (viewed 72 times):
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