"The storage battery is, in my opinion, a catchpenny, a sensation, a
mechanism for swindling the
public by stock companies. The storage
battery is one of those peculiar things which appeals to the
imagination, and no more perfect thing could be desired by stock
swindlers than that very selfsame
thing. ... Just as soon as a man gets
working on the secondary battery it brings out his latent capacity
for
lying."
—Thomas Edison in The Electrician (London) Feb. 17, 1883, p. 329,
