dry battery

That, in fact, was how this whole miserable business over the dry batteries started.

There was a dry battery in the post of the telephone.

He never even consulted me about the feasibility of the dry battery project.

It has been largely superseded by the dry battery, though they both work on the same principle.

If I played my hand properly the dry battery project would soon be no more than a disagreeable memory.

Tom soon returned with the portable electric lamp, operated by dry batteries.

Later tubes had 1.4 volt filaments to run from dry batteries.

The trouble with a dry battery is that, except on the outside, it isn't really dry.

The electric current for ignition was supplied by dry batteries for starting.

You could work this off dry batteries!

Why could we not make dry batteries ourselves?' '

But if you will recall our original conversation on the subject of dry batteries, the feasibility of the project was always in question.

The sooner I could start 'phasing out' the dry battery fiasco the better.

They consist of a crystal-controlled receiver-transmitter, a 16-v dry battery, and a power cable assembly.

Ignition was by jump spark supplied by dry batteries.

Dry batteries will do it beautifully.

Next to the air tubes is the section containing the dry batteries and also the electro-pneumatic valves which control the speed of the engine.

I told him that in theory a dry battery was just a curled darling and no mistake, but when it come to practice, sho!

Dry batteries are mass-produced by the billions nowadays in Japan, America and Europe.

Before leaving for Italy I had prepared the ground carefully by sending him a statement of the financial position of the dry battery project.

'By cutting down on the imports of certain sizes of dry battery, yes.'

Sometimes only the tube heater power was derived from a windmill, and dry batteries were retained for the plate voltage supply.

If that man had known you as I know you he would have taken your judgment at the start, and dropped his dry battery where it was."

The Zamboni pile of 1812 was a high-voltage dry battery but capable of delivering only minute currents.

They were the first commercial dry battery and made flashlights and other portable devices possible, because the battery can function in any position.