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Title

[LB035138], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to H Frank Korthener, December 16th, 1889

Editor's Notes

Your letter of 3rd instant addressed to Mr. Edison was duly received. Your boat appears to be well designed and looks a very creditable piece of work. There are more powerful batteries than the one you are using, but they are not usually made small enough for your boat. You can, however, make them yourself, if you wish to give as much time to the work as you already must have given to the other parts of the design. You will probably have to take out the two cells you have got, in order to give the necessary space. You can then put in five or six smaller glass cells, or if you have any difficulty in procuring them of the right size, you can insert wooden partitions, crosswise, like miniature bulkheads, about an inch apart. You should be very particular to get them all water tight, which you can affect by soaking them with asphalt varnish or marine glue. You will then have five or six cells in the boat itself. Then take a sheet of thin zinc and cut it up with shears into strips wide enough to fit in crosswise, one to each partition. Next get some carbon flat plates, whatever sixe you can that will fit one to each partition, and fill in finally with a solution of basic sulphate of mercury in water – about four ounces should be sufficient of slat for the six compartments. You will then have six complete cells. No porous cell or partition will be necessary, and the zincs will amalgamate themselves." Yours very truly, AO Tate

Author

Tate, Alfred Ord

Recipient

Korthener, H Frank

Mentioned

Edison, Thomas Alva

Date

1889-12-16

Type

Letter

Subject

Electric battery

Chemicals, chemical products, and chemical processes

Folder ID

LB035-F

Microfilm ID

140:50

Document ID

LB035138

URL

https://edisondigital.rutgers.edu/document/LB035138

Rights

Thomas Edison National Historical Park

Publisher

Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University

Has Version

Archive.org Viewer, Microfilm Series Reel 140

License

CC0 1.0 Universal

Item sets

[LB035-F] LB-035 (Dec 1889-Jan 1890)