File:Electrical Accumulator Theodore N Vail 1886.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(2,186 × 1,395 pixels, file size: 1.56 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
Description
English: Stock certificate of Electrical Accumulator Company dated February 19, 1886, originally signed by Theodore N. Vail as president. Founded in 1886, the company was a subsidiary of the Electrical Power Storage Company, founded in London in 1882 and the first in the world to build electric batteries. Among Electrical Accumulator Company's notable employees was Massachusetts inventor and engineer Morgan Brooks. Electrical Accumulator Company successfully built accumulators for electric boats, electric lighting in streetcars, trains, stations, etc. The Pratt Electric Tricycle Car, America's first electric automobile, introduced in Boston in 1888, was powered by Electrical Accumulator Company batteries. The car reached a speed of 8 miles per hour.
Date
Source „Sammlung Commodore“, Rüdiger K. Weng
Author Julie Ceccaldi

Licensing

[edit]
Creative Commons CC-Zero This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current11:21, 23 April 2023Thumbnail for version as of 11:21, 23 April 20232,186 × 1,395 (1.56 MB)Indossent (talk | contribs)Uploaded a work by Julie Ceccaldi from „Sammlung Commodore“, Rüdiger K. Weng with UploadWizard

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Electrical_Accumulator_Theodore_N_Vail_1886.jpg&oldid=832994720"