Researchers are going back to Thomas Edison's old nickel-iron battery design more than 100 years later to make a new, ...

UCLA scientists have developed a modern version of Thomas Edison’s nickel-iron battery that can recharge in seconds and survive more than 12,000 charge-discharge cycles, a performance leap that could ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story... In 1901, Thomas Edison patented a nickel-iron battery, which didn’t initially catch on. An international research team recently reinvented Edison’s ...

A little-known fact: In the year 1900, electric cars outnumbered gas-powered ones on the American road. The lead-acid auto battery of the time, courtesy of Thomas Edison, was expensive and had a range ...

Through the looking glass: A century after Thomas Edison's early experiments with nickel-iron batteries, researchers at UCLA and their international collaborators have revived the concept using modern ...

This was certainly true for Thomas Edison, who envisioned the potential of electric vehicles long before they became trendy. But in Edison’s lifetime, rapid technological advances in gas-powered cars ...

Edison Battery Oil, 2 bottles. Oil is intended for use with Edison alkali storage batteries. The oil is poured into the cell and floats on top of the electrolyte preventing air from reaching the ...