Here is Edison-LaLande Battery Type V. You see a lot of
tops for Edison batteries but the plates that make the
power are hard to find because they are destroyed making
the electricity from caustic soda.
The Gladstone-LaLande is like the previous Edison battery
except the container is enameled steel container and not
ceramic like the Edison battery. On the top, it has patent
dates of 1883 and 1903.
The Edison Nickel-Iron-Alkaline storage battery
was used in railway signal equipment. They have no acid in
them like are car a battery. You have seen
the gray boxes shitting next a Railroad Crossing well
in them are these batteries. There are some similar things
that can be said about this battery and today's Lithium batteries.
This is an Exide DFG battery. I know nothing about this battery
it just different from any battery I have seen.
Here are some different No. 6 battery company makers. That
replaced the wet cell batteries that had dangerous liquids in them.
What is amazing is that all the batteries from the 1800s until
todays Lithium batteries have a voltage of 1.25 to 1.5 volts.
No matter the size of a lithium button battery to some Edison
batteries that can hold 2 gallons of liquid.