PALO ALTO — Thomas Edison gave us the modern light bulb, telephone technology, and dozens of other inventions and developments in technology that affect us each day. It turns out the battery ...

At the turn of the 20th Century, Thomas Edison invented a battery with the unusual quirk of producing hydrogen. Now, 120 years later, the battery is coming into its own. Traveling down a gravelly ...

Scientists have dramatically improved the performance of Thomas Edison's nickel-iron battery. The enhanced device could be used in electric vehicles, much as Edison originally envisioned.

A century-old battery originally developed by Thomas Edison to power cars may find new life today with new electrodes developed at Stanford University that allow the battery to be charged and ...

Some inventions last ... and last. The nickel-iron battery, designed by Thomas Edison in 1900, was used in electric vehicles until the 1920s, and was then used as backup power for railroads and ...

In 1901, Thomas Edison developed the recharcheable nickel-iron battery, a technology he hoped to see implemented in electric cars. But a slow rate of energy output and slower charging time saw it ...

Here’s how it works. Thomas Edison didn't just have telegraphs and light bulbs on his mind — the U.S. innovator marketed an electric car battery in the early 20th century. The same nickel-iron ...

The original Edison battery was used to power early electric vehicles A rechargeable battery technology developed by Thomas Edison more than a century ago has been upgraded by Stanford University ...

Edison watched firemen fight the inferno from neighboring Building Number 5, better known as the Battery Factory, which made millions of batteries for experimental vehicles like submarines and ...