A website, archive and interactive space celebrating one of Britain's most innovative engineers and inventors, Frederick Lanchester
Fred’s notebooks often contain fascinating lists of components and materials including this one for a battery from 1905.
It includes:
He also notes that
Zinc gives a definite “amp hourage” approximate to 2,000,000 ft lbs = 1 HP hour = 730 watt hours @ 2.4 300 amp hours
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