![]() ![]() (Within 5 years, there was a substantial field of aftermarket brands in storage batteries and starters for automobiles, as evidenced by the advertisements in automotive trade journals of the era.) ![]() This project yielded the first car battery of the modern type. Kettering turned to the Electric Storage Battery Company for a suitable automotive battery to complement his new electric starter. ฤก919 Willard Service Station for battery-powered automobiles and employees of the Washington Battery Co., 1623 L Street N.W., Washington, D.C. This battery was the first to bear the name Exide, short for "Excellent Oxide". In 1900, the Electric Storage Battery Company developed a product of greater capacity and less weight for electric taxicabs. Isaac Rice, president of Electric Storage in 1899, was instrumental in founding the Electric Boat Company as a bailout of the Holland Torpedo Boat Company. Electric Storage remained a significant supplier of US Navy submarine batteries at least through World War II. In 1898, an Exide brand battery provided the submerged power for the USS Holland (SS-1), the first submarine commissioned in the US Navy. Gibbs asserted that this secured to the Electric Storage Battery Company the sole right to supply this country electric storage batteries of all the various types heretofore developed, as well as the protection of every decision thus far rendered by the federal courts in the interpretation of patents of this kind. Gibbs, president of the Electric Storage Battery Company, stated on the night of Sunday Decemthat the company had consummated the day before in New York the purchase of all patents and patent rights concerning the manufacture and use of electric storage batteries of the General Electric Company, the Edison company, the Thomson-Houston, the Brush, the Accumulator company, the Consolidated Electric Storage Company and the General Electric Launch Company. Advertisement for Electric Storage Battery Company 1897
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