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battery
battery (bàt´e-rê)
noun
plural batteries
1.a. The act of beating
or pounding. b. Law. The unlawful and unwanted touching or striking of
one person by another, with the intention of bringing about a harmful or
offensive contact.
2.a. An emplacement for
one or more pieces of artillery. b. A set of guns or other heavy artillery,
on a warship, for example. c.
Abbr. btry. An army artillery
unit, corresponding to a company in the infantry.
3.a. An array of similar
things
intended
for use together: took a battery of achievement tests. b. An
impressive
body or group: a battery of political supporters.
4.Baseball. The pitcher
and catcher.
5.Music. The percussion
section of an orchestra.
6.Electricity. a. Two or
more connected cells that produce a direct current by converting chemical
energy to
electrical
energy. b. A single cell, such as a dry cell, that produces an electric
current.
[Middle English batri, forged metal ware, from Old French baterie, a beating, from batre, to batter.]
battery
battery (bat'er-ê`)
noun
Two or more cells in a container
that produces an electrical current when two electrodes within the container
touch an electrolyte. In personal computers, batteries are used as an auxiliary
source of power when the main power is shut off; as a power source for
laptop and notebook computers (rechargeable batteries, such as nickel cadmium,
nickel metal hydride, and lithium ion, are used); and as a method to keep
the internal clock and the circuitry that is responsible for the part of
RAM that stores important system information always powered up. See also
lead ion battery, lithium ion battery, nickel cadmium battery, nickel metal
hydride battery, RAM.
Battery
Battery, also electric cell, device that converts
chemical energy into electricity. All cells consist of a liquid, paste,
or solid electrolyte; a positive electrode; and a negative electrode. The
electrolyte is an ionic conductor; one of the electrodes will react, producing
electrons, while the other will accept electrons. When the electrodes are
connected to a device to be powered, called a load, an electrical current
flows.
Primary Cells
Primary cells are cells that cannot be recharged.
The most common form of primary cell is the dry cell or flashlight battery,
invented by French chemist Georges Leclanché in the 1860s. Another
widely used primary cell is the zinc-mercuric-oxide cell, more commonly
called a
mercury
battery. It can be made in the shape of a small flat disk for hearing aids,
photoelectric cells, and electric wristwatches. The fuel cell, another
type of primary cell, is unique in that the chemicals are not contained
within the cell but are supplied from outside.
Secondary Cells
The storage battery, or secondary cell, which
can be recharged by reversing the chemical reaction, was invented in 1859
by French physicist Gaston Planté. Planté's cell was a lead-acid
battery, the type widely used today in automobiles, trucks, aircraft, and
other vehicles. Its chief advantage is that it can deliver a strong current
of electricity for starting an engine; however, it runs down quickly. Another
widely used secondary cell is the alkaline cell, or nickel-iron battery,
developed by American inventor Thomas Alva Edison in the 1900s. This battery
is used principally in heavy industry. Another alkaline cell similar to
the Edison battery is the nickel-cadmium cell. A number of new types of
batteries have been designed for use in electric vehicles. They still suffer
the drawbacks of short range, high expense, bulkiness, or environmental
problems. Solar batteries produce electricity by a photoelectric conversion
process. The source of electricity is a photosensitive semiconductor. Solar
batteries have very long lifetimes and are used chiefly in spacecraft as
a source of electricity to operate the equipment onboard.
battery (noun)
accumulation: magazine, battery,
armory, quiver, arsenal
causal means: dynamo, generator,
battery, spark, energy
electronics: battery, storage
battery, accumulator
stable: stall, cage, coop,
henhouse, hutch, battery
exam: test, series of tests,
battery
storage: battery, storage
battery, dry battery, wet battery
formation: artillery brigade,
battery
gun: battery, broadside
Energy, 1890
Ever Ready batteries, the first commercial dry cell batteries, are introduced by National Carbon Co.
Energy, 1954
A solar battery developed by
Bell
Laboratories makes it possible to convert sunlight directly to
electric
power.
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"Then, as if a switch were being
thrown, a great voltage will race through this finally synchronized and integrated
circuit called humanity. The Earth itself will be illumined. A current
charging both poles will race across the skies, connecting the polar
auroras
in a single brilliant flash. Like an iridescent rainbow, this circumpolar energy
uniting the planetary antipodes will be instantaneously understood as the external
projection of the unification of the collective mind of humanity. In that
moment
of understanding, we shall be collectively projected into an evolutionary domain
that is presently inconceivable."
-
Jose
Arguelles -
_The
Mayan Factor_, pp. 195-196.
1. BAFFLING BATTERIES OF
BABYLON
In 1938, Dr. Wilhelm Kong, an Austrian
archaeologist rummaging through the basement of the museum made a find that
was to drastically alter all concepts of ancient science. A 6-inch-high pot
of bright yellow clay dating back two millennia contained a cylinder of sheet-copper
5 inches by 1.5 inches. The edge of the copper cylinder was soldered with a
60-40 lead-tin alloy comparable to today's best solder. The bottom of the cylinder
was capped with a crimped-in copper disk and sealed
with bitumen or asphalt. Another insulating layer of asphalt sealed the top
and also held in place an iron rod suspended into the center of the copper cylinder.
The rod showed evidence of having
been corroded with acid. With a background in mechanics, Dr. Konig recognized
this configuration was not a chance arrangement, but that the clay pot was nothing
less than an ancient
electric
battery.
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The ancient battery in the Baghdad
Museum as well as those others which were unearthed in Iraq all date from the
Parthian Persian occupation between 248 B.C. and A.D. 226. However, Konig found
copper vases plated with silver in the Baghdad Museum excavated from
Sumerian
remains in southern Iraq dating back to at least 2500 B.C. When the vases were
lightly tapped a blue patina or film separated from the surfaces, characteristic
of silver electroplated to copper. It would appear then that the Persians inherited
their batteries from the earliest known civilization in the Middle East.
Meucci powered
telephones
with
electricity
taken from the ground through special earth batteries, and from the sky by using
large surface area diodes to draw static from the air. Eliminating the need
for employing batteries in his telephonic systems, Meucci first conceived of
a transoceanic vocal communication system. His notion was grand
and achievable. Marconi later employed methods pioneered by the forgotten
Meucci.
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Welcome.
Time
to join minds and recharge the spiritual batteries. A
serotonin
drenched universe awaits. End or funs popin. Your mind morphs into
A cybercraft hurtling thru the cosmic mirror on a mental
spongle,
surfing the decoded intergalactic highway of the
imagination
on a one way ticket to infinity. Holographic, geometric shifting surfaces
oscillating
between
dimensions.
Hallucination, one world tribe throbbing affirming magic is alive in
hyperspace:
the pleasure button is stuck on go...an endless
loop
of bliss. Weird highness, high weirdness. Dust stompers fluoronauts.
Gravity
dispersers,
trancers
and
dancers,
a zillion bom shankars.
Take us to your dealer.
- liner notes from
604
release _Feeling Weird_ CDb
by
The Infinity Project on
TIP
