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Byline: Anne Taulane
Why do battery sizes come in AAA, AA, C and D, and not A, B, C and D?--Nancy Stein, Manalapan, N.J.
It was all supposed to make sense, according to the American National Standards Committee. In 1924 a government and industry committee created the system using...
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