to beat these effects is to remove the battery and store i t in a warm place on a cold night.) Perhaps you have noted that if you have been trying to start the car and you let i t "rest" for a few minutes the battery will have renewed zest. Why?

A Related Anecdote--from the Life of Eddie Rickenbacker'

Concerning his trip in a Waverly Electric Car taken without permission from his employer. He was about 14 years old of

the time ( 1 904).

Contributed by Arra Nergararian, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

"After supper I started back to the garage. Mr. Evans would be in next morning. . . But I hadn't gone one quarter of the way when the little car began to give signs that I had driven it too much. I t slowed down and came to s stop. It was out of juice. The battevies were dead. Darkness was coming on and I had a mile and a half to go . . . no wrecker service . . . only the Evans Garage which was going to be minus its one employee should its irate owner return to find said employee out with a customer's ezr.

"In discussing electrical energy with me, Evans had observed that frequently a battery would regsin some current if allowed to sit idle for a while . . . I decided to wait an hour. Never had time dragged so slowly. My Ingersoll dollar watch was in and out of my pocket a. dozen times . . . I gingerly pushed the oontrol lever, fully expecting nothing to happen, but . . . the oar lurched forward . . . several blocks before it died. Again I sat for an hour . . . the refreshed batteries took me a few more blocks. As the night wore on, the hope became shorter and the waits longer, hut finally about 3:00 A.M. I reached the garage. I hooked up the battery charger and took the streetcar home. . . ."

Volume 47, Number 5, May 1970 / 383