" the Story of the Modern Storage Battery " Lead Acid Battery (1959)
1959 · Short film · 27 min
Synopsis
This color educational film is about storage batteries such as car batteries. This was made in 1959 and was produced by the Willard Storage Battery Division. Titles: US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, The Story of the Modern Storage Battery (:13-:43). A man puts a storage battery together. He attaches the battery into a car. Close on the car's radio. Atomic Submarine shot. Guided missile. Mariners on a boat. Doctors operate. A group of batteries. Many batteries are shown (:44-2:10). He holds a penny and a nickel. He cuts a grapefruit. He places the coins in the grapefruit and then makes it into a battery where an electric current can be tested. Other types of batteries are shown. A photo of Alessandro Volta is shown, he was the father of the electric battery. What he did to create it is shown with discs (2:11-4:45). He touches a storage battery. A photo of Gaston Planté was a French physicist who invented the lead–acid battery in 1859. Lead plates are put into an electrolyte solution. An experiment is shown. Close on bubbling water and lead plates. One lead is brown, one is not. He attaches wires to the two lead plates and runs a battery test. The host talks to the camera (4:46-8:13). Animated diagram shows lead peroxide and lead in electrolyte dilute sulphuric acid. A light bulb is attached and lights up. The experiment is shown in animation to light up a lightbulb. Lead sulfate is shown being made (8:14-11:09). A battery charger is inserted in the animated…
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- Running time
- 27 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- 1959
- Storage Battery
- Lead
- Acid
- Stock Footage
