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Preece writes: 'I have for some months past been experimenting with secondary batteries with a view of getting an efficient, uniform, and constant source of currents for electric lighting my house, and I have succeeded beyond my expectations. Some new facts have developed themselves during my experience, which I have thought of sufficient importance to bring before the Society [...] The cells are of the Planté type, manufactured by the Elwell Parker Company of Wolverhampton [England].'

Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes five diagrams of experimental apparatus and results and five prints of the same.

Subject: Electricity

Received 6 May 1885. Read 21 May 1885.

A version of this paper was published in volume 38 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On charging secondary batteries'.

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PP/6/33
Earliest possible date
1885
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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23 pages
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Manuscript
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William Henry Preece

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William Henry Preece, Paper, 'On charging secondary batteries' by W H [William Henry] Preece, 1885, PP/6/33, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_6_33/paper-on-charging-secondary-batteries-by-w-h-william-henry-preece, accessed on 12 November 2024

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