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DIED. LEWIS URRY, 77, whose invention of a long-life battery made possible a host of portable devices; in Middleburg Heights, Ohio. In 1955, at Union Carbide's Eveready lab, the chemical engineer was asked to make a small battery that would last for more than a few minutes. He was quite successful: at a demonstration for company executives, one toy car, equipped with an older battery, quickly slowed to a halt while another, powered with his now standard alkaline battery, raced around and around the cafeteria. Urry, according to his son Michael, was a modest man who "took special...
...DIED. LEWIS URRY, 77, whose invention of a long-life battery made possible a host of portable devices; after a brief illness; in Middleburg Heights, Ohio. In 1955, at Union Carbide?s Eveready lab, the chemical engineer was asked to make a battery that would last for more than a few minutes. He was quite successful: at a demonstration for company executives, one model car barely moved while another, powered with his now-ubiquitous alkaline battery, raced round and round the company cafeteria. Urry, according to his son Michael, was a modest man who ?took special pride around Christmas, when...