Storage Battery Practice: A Practical Handbook on the Manufacture and Properties of Electric Accumulators and Their Installation and OperationSir I. Pitman & Sons, Limited (incorporating Whittaker & Company), 1919 - Storage batteries - 169 pages |
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Final P D s and Watthour Efficiencies at various Rates | 2 |
THE nature and action of a storage cellLaws of electrolysisPositives | 7 |
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