Design was by Naval Torpedo Station Newport, the Electric Storage Battery Company and General Electric. These tubes were made for home storage battery receivers manufactured during the early to mid-1930s. The Universal Electric Storage Battery Company of Chicago came into existence in 1905. In May 2017, Mercedes partnered with Vivint Solar to develop a solar-energy home storage battery. It is usually powered directly from the AC mains, while simultaneously charging a storage battery. As the Philadelphia Storage Battery Company, in 1906 it began making batteries for electric vehicles. In 2004, Yuasa Corporation merged with Japan Storage Battery to form GS Yuasa Corporation. Exide's predecessor corporation was the Electric Storage Battery Company, founded by W.W. Gibbs in 1888. The Morrison Storage Battery allowed the normal internal operation of the battery to function correctly. Soon after, Yuasa Storage Battery Co., Ltd began making Japan's first automotive batteries. Storage battery cars ran on the non-electrified branch between June 1913 and May 1926.