Storage batteries -- History

Scope and content The first typescript is dated June 26, 1950 and is a brief 2-page précis of Vicarey's career. The second typescript is dated 2-1-37 and titled My Knowledge of the Battery Industry from Experience. This is longer (3 page) document and is arranged chronologically. It is a first person account of Vicarey's work from 1867 through to 1925. There is also a third-person account titled Veteran Globe Chemist Has 67 Years Experience dated October 1, 1936. This latter piece appeared in Globe News, the...

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This is a collection of reprints, reports, and product information brochures concerning the history of the storage battery in various forms.

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This is a collection of files consisting of both original notes and photocopies of previously published materials assembled by Richard H. Schallenberg as an aid to him in his composition of the posthumously published 1982 book Bottled Energy: Electrical Engineering and the Evolution of Chemical Energy Storage.

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This is a research collection, meant to accompany Hamer's own collection of objects. There are reprints of articles by Hamer and others handwritten notes and advertising materials. Among the highlights of the collection are a file of materials relating to the AD-X2 Duble Power battery additive and Hamer's exposure of that product as fraud, and a wealth of notes on histories topics such as battery-operated trains and the elevators inside of the Washington Monument.