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Show A Primary Battery. According to the Glasgow newspapers, two young Scottish workmen, sons of a mechanic employed in the Singer sewing machine works on the Clyde, have invented in-vented a battery which, it is asserted will revolutionize electrical work, and a great man of science like Lord Kelvin thinks so much of it that he offered to buy the patent rights for $50,000. The inventors, aged 21 and 18 years, have it is said, made a primary battery "in which, while the decomposition of the zinc plates is rendered enormously slow er and the chemicals used are of trivial value, the strength of the battery thus formed is very greatly increased. " The battery has been put to some severe (tests and is said to have stood them tri umphantly. It is evident that these lady have made some sort of a discovery which is likely to bring them fortune, but general expert opinion discredits the idea of an electrical revolution. |