Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A room in which electric batteries are located.
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Examples
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At 8 o'clock he appeared, walked around, went into the battery-room, and then came to me, saying: ` Edison, who did this? '
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The battery-room was filled with old record-books and message bundles, and one hundred cells of nitric-acid battery, arranged on a stand in the centre of the room.
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It was at this juncture that Edison reached New York, and according to his own statement found shelter at night in the battery-room of the Gold Indicator Company, having meantime applied for a position as operator with the Western Union.
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He then went to the battery-room and knocked all the batteries off on the floor.
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` ` I went one night, '' he says, ` ` into the battery-room to obtain some sulphuric acid for experimenting.
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It was on the second story of a dilapidated building on the principal street of the city, with the battery-room in the rear; behind which was the office of the agent of the Associated Press.
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It was on the second story of a dilapidated building on the principal street of the city, with the battery-room in the rear; behind which was the office of the agent of the Associated Press.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905
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The battery-room was filled with old record-books and message bundles, and one hundred cells of nitric-acid battery, arranged on a stand in the centre of the room.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905
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He then went to the battery-room and knocked all the batteries off on the floor.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905
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At 8 o'clock he appeared, walked around, went into the battery-room, and then came to me, saying: 'Edison, who did this?'
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905
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