From: John De Armond
Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.rv-travel
Subject: Antique battery manual
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:55:21 -0400
Message-ID: <r8etn0d5jti0j7njfa5112bs1k4k33vi73@4ax.com>

I have just found a fascinating document.  It is a scanned version of the
1922 "THE AUTOMOBILE STORAGE BATTERY ITS CARE AND REPAIR" manual

http://www.powerstream.com/BPD.htm
Download for off-line reading
http://www.powerstream.com/1922/battery_1922.zip

The title is somewhat misleading.  This document actually documents pretty
much everything that was known about the manufacture, repair and care of
the lead acid battery at that time.  Much of the information is still
useful.  The photographs showing the manufacturing process are
fascinating.

Of particular interest to anyone who burns off a battery terminal is the
section on "lead burning".  "Lead welding" would probably be the more
accurate term but "burning" is the term in use.

Much of this manual is still current.  The obsolete parts are obvious.
The in-depth coverage of construction, chemistry and fabrication of
batteries is just as useful today even though not many of us will ever
disassemble a battery for repair (myself excluded, of course :-)

John