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    The Downing Point Battery was a World War I coastal gun battery defending the Firth of Forth. The battery was constructed in 1914 at Downing Point, then...
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    batteries at Downing Point on the North coast and Hound Point on the South coast of the river. Additional batteries were located at Carlingnose Point...
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  • Praed Point Battery was a coastal-defence installation at Praed Point, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea during World War II. It was built in 1941 by...
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  • Docks Battery, Leith, City of Edinburgh Braefoot Battery, Dalgety Bay, Fife Cramond Island Battery, Cramond Island, Firth of Forth Downing Point Battery, Dalgety...
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    The Dawes Point Battery remains is a heritage-listed former artillery fortification and now visitor attraction located adjacent to the southern pylon...
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    An automotive battery, or car battery, is a rechargeable battery that is used to start a motor vehicle. Its main purpose is to provide an electric current...
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    The nickel–cadmium battery (Ni–Cd battery or NiCad battery) is a type of rechargeable battery using nickel oxide hydroxide and metallic cadmium as electrodes...
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    Battery – 2 × 12-pdr QF Invergarvie Battery – 4 × 12-pdr QF Coastguard Battery – 2 × 12-pdr QF Downing Point Battery – 2 × 12-pdr QF Armoured Train, Craigentinny...
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    A lithium-ion or Li-ion battery is a type of rechargeable battery that uses the reversible intercalation of Li+ ions into electronically conducting solids...
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    Button cell (redirect from Coin battery)
    A button cell, watch battery, or coin battery is a small battery made of a single electrochemical cell and shaped as a squat cylinder typically 5 to 25 mm...
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    A battery electric vehicle (BEV), pure electric vehicle, only-electric vehicle, fully electric vehicle or all-electric vehicle is a type of electric vehicle...
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    lead-acid battery is a type of rechargeable battery first invented in 1859 by French physicist Gaston Planté. It is the first type of rechargeable battery ever...
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    Battery Park City is a mainly residential 92-acre (37 ha) planned community and neighborhood on the west side of the southern tip of the island of Manhattan...
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  • The glass battery is a type of solid-state battery. It uses a glass electrolyte and lithium or sodium metal electrodes. The battery was invented by John...
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    A rechargeable battery, storage battery, or secondary cell (formally a type of energy accumulator), is a type of electrical battery which can be charged...
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    States Army military base that was the site of several coastal artillery batteries to defend Pearl Harbor starting in 1907 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The eastern...
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    The Battery, formerly known as Battery Park, is a 25-acre (10 ha) public park located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City facing New...
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  • Thumbnail for Electric vehicle battery
    An electric vehicle battery is a rechargeable battery used to power the electric motors of a battery electric vehicle (BEV) or hybrid electric vehicle...
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    In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit or multiple systems of artillery, mortar systems, rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers...
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    interruptions by switching to energy stored in battery packs, supercapacitors or flywheels. The on-battery run-times of most UPSs are relatively short (only...
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    Old Battery, at Hatherwood Point are the remains of Hatherwood Battery, built to defend the area alongside the Needles Battery. The Old Battery is a...
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    Batteries provided the primary source of electricity before the development of electric generators and electrical grids around the end of the 19th century...
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    produce different floating-point values. On 25 February 1991, a loss of significance in a MIM-104 Patriot missile battery prevented it from intercepting...
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    Battery cages are a housing system used by factory farms for various animal production methods, but primarily for egg-laying hens. The name arises from...
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  • Diamond battery is the name of a nuclear battery concept proposed by the University of Bristol Cabot Institute during its annual lecture held on 25 November...
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  • Needles Battery". "Warden Point Battery". "Golden Hill Fort". "Cliff End Battery". "Fort Albert". "Fort Victoria". "Bouldnor Battery". "Puckpool Battery". "Nodes...
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    Doller's Point Battery, a Confederate earthworks during the American Civil War intended to protect Richmond against Union gunboats. Swann's Point Battery was...
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    supplies electrical power for recharging plug-in electric vehicles (including battery electric vehicles, electric trucks, electric buses, neighborhood electric...
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  • counter-fire. Counter-battery fire rose to prominence in World War I. Counter-battery radar detects incoming indirect fire and calculates its point of origin. That...
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    A battery holder is one or more compartments or chambers for holding a battery. For dry cells, the holder must also make electrical contact with the battery...
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