Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1918 — WHEN BATTERY NEEDS WATER [ARTICLE]

WHEN BATTERY NEEDS WATER

Dial Recently Invented by Garage Man, Makes Lack Known—Warning Signal la Given. An instrument, recently invented by a garage man indicates by its dial on the dashboard when the storage battery of an automobile needs water ‘through evaporation or leakage of the electrolyte In any of its cells. The dial is that of a voltmeter installed on the dash and connected to the battery by wires forming a closed circuit When the fluid in the battery reaches a dangeronaly low level, the warning signal appears behind the glass er the dlaL