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The Scandalous History of the Last Rotor Cipher Machine

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The HX-63 includes, in addition to the hand crank, a nickel-cadmium battery to run the rotor circuit and printer if no mains power is available. After cleaning and lubricating the machine, I struck a few keys on the keyboard. A 12-volt DC linear power supply runs the motor and printer and charges the battery.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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Up to that time, the best rechargeable battery had been nickel cadmium, which put out a maximum of 1.3 While cleaning his desk on the last day of 1982, he found a 1980 technical paper coauthored by Goodenough, Yoshino recalled in his autobiography, Lithium-Ion Batteries Open the Door to the Future, Hidden Stories by the Inventor.