[D0103AAJ1], Letter from S De Laszcrynski to Thomas Alva Edison, August 1st, 1901
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[TAE Marginalia] <Put on my desk in library> Berlin 1/8 1901 Mr. Th A. Edison Llewellyn Park, New Jersey U.S.A. Sir European Newspapers have brought notices about your last invention the alkaline storage battery. As I may hope you will take interest in the communication, that I and Mr. Michalowiki (of Austria) have found and thoroughly experimented a method of making nickel-oxide anodes. The results we have obtained, are as follows: The capacity of there nickel-anodes is 30 amp per kilogramme of electric at the rate of discharge with 20 amperes. They can also be charged and discharged with very strong current without being damaged; their usual discharge rate can reach up to thirty amperes per kilo of positive electrode. The electrodes are composed of thin nets of nickel-wire, upon which porous nickel is electrolytically deposed, the method of electrolysis is with great probability the best of all, who still may be invented, inasmuch ash she allows to fix the prosity of nickel to every chosen degree and then because it is no spongy nickel neither nickel powder, which is produced by her, but a solid and coherent carcass of porous nickel. We have also made and proved a combination of these nickel-anodes with porous zinc in carbonate of alcali The wholly [illegible] electrolyte is much better for autmobilization purpose then caustic alcalies . If you think, a combination of your methods with ours should be successful, we are ready to come across the ocean to your laboratory and to make there the electordes after our method. Meantimes I sign with perfect esteem. Dr. St. de Laszrynski