From Twitter 10-13-2009

[littlebluedog]

• 12:28:35: I wonder if there's ever been an "A" or "B" battery type.
  
• 12:31:44: I wonder if anyone who read my last tweet was prompted to research the answer.
  
• 12:33:20: Because I do that ALL THE TIME.
  
• 12:49:42: Via @sanguinity: They were sizes handy for vacuum tube devices. T'was never an A or B in current scheme. http://bit.ly/4l5ba (Thanks!)
  
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Comments

[brucix]

I am also anti-giant-ice-ball.

[ellettra]

your tweets seriously crack me up. they are also the only tweets i read on my friends list. :)

[ellettra]

oh and p.s. i'm with nicole on hating the ice ball. when you take a drink it plops down and hits you in the nose or similar, which is annoying to the likes of me.

[littlebluedog]

But it's just so mathematically neat and tidy!

[bernmarx]

Wikipedia posits why there are not "A" or "B" cell batteries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_(vacuum_tube)

For whatever it's worth.

[littlebluedog]

Linked above! :)

[bernmarx]

Oh, I could have read the entire post. :)

Ah well.