Ben Goren via EV wrote:
Especially frustrating is that it's entirely within the realm of hobbyist technology to build the bloody things. Indeed, if you're okay with making soap and canning food, you probably have everything you need to safely make them.
It would be a challenge; but Edison wrote his patents in the days when patents really *did* describe how to make them.
For instance, he made his nickel electrode by electroplating a very thin layer of nickel onto copper sheet, then slicing it up into little flakes, and then dissolving away the copper. These nickel "snowflakes" were than packed into perforated nickel tubes, and electrically connected together with a plating operation. This provided the good electrical conductivity and very high surface area needed.
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