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THE great utility of some thoroughly practical method of conserving electric force has caused a great deal of attention to be applied to the subject; no system of electric supply can be considered as perfect until some means is used to so store the force generated that it may be drawn off equally and regularly, and this whether the generator be on or off. If we take, as an example of electric supply, the present systems of electric lighting, it is at once seen, should an accident or stoppage take place in the machinery generating the current, the whole of the apparatus such as lamps or motor-machines are influenced; should there be a reservoir of electricity between the generator and the apparatus of whatever sort for utilising the force this inconvenience would not occur.
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A New Electrical Storage Battery 1 . Nature 25, 198–199 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/025198d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/025198d0