Battery Basics
Making Lead-Acid Batteries Spill-Proof With Gel
The traditional lead-acid battery contained liquid sulfuric acid in water. This worked well, but the…
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The Sealed Lead-Acid Battery Changes Everything
Early lead-acid batteries had one important weakness. Their electrolyte was a liquid solution of sulfuric…
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How Lead-Acid Batteries Became Easier to Manufacture
The success of the lead-acid battery depended on mass manufacture, more than good chemistry. In a…
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The Rise of the Electric Starter Battery
The rise of the electric starter battery was one of the most exciting moments in battery…
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Plates Needed Stronger Alloys In Lead-Acid Batteries
Early lead-acid batteries had a significant weakness. Lead is useful for making battery plates, because…
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The Lead-Acid Battery Goes to Work At Last
As lead-acid batteries improved during the late nineteenth century, their usefulness extended far beyond electric…
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Lead-Acid Batteries Take To The Road
When lead-acid batteries take to the road, then things are literally humming! Lead-acid batteries did…
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Tubular Plates Made Lead-Acid Batteries Stronger
Faure’s pasted plates solved one major problem in lead-acid battery production. They made it much…
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Tudor Introduced Practical Lead-Acid Batteries
Lead-acid batteries had become more useful by the early 1880s. Planté had shown that lead…
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Lead Grids Changed the Lead-Acid Battery
Lead grids changed the lead-acid battery as the next step. This was after Camille Alphonse Faure’s…