Historical Personality
Lithium-Ion Has Changed Our World Forever
Few people could have forecast how lithium-ion batteries have changed our world, when Sony introduced…
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The Lithium-Ion Revolution Had Many Foot Soldiers
The lithium-ion revolution had many ground troops supporting it. Although historians often focus on Nobel Chemistry Prize…
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Akira Yoshino Makes Lithium-Ion Batteries Practical
There were two important discoveries made by the early 1980’s. Whittingham had shown that lithium…
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Whittingham Opens The Lithium-Ion Battery Door
The first major lithium-ion battery breakthrough occurs, as M. Stanley Whittingham opens the lithium-ion battery door…
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Waiting For Lithium-Ion Batteries – The Challenge
Most folk may not have known it, but we were waiting for lithium-ion batteries during…
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The Baghdad Batteries Remain An Ancient Mystery
The Baghdad Batteries’ remains may have vanished during a war, but their mystery persists. They…
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Early Electrochemical Battery Evolution in Europe
Batteries produce electricity through controlled electro-chemical reactions. When the early electro-chemical battery revolution began in…
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The Oldest Lead-Acid Battery
Was that a photo of the the oldest lead-acid battery still in existence, that you…
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Birth of the Button Cell Battery
The birth of the button cell battery did not come when alkaline batteries arrived. In…
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Forgotten Battery World of Lewis Urry
Today we share the story of a Canadian-American chemist, who helped change everyday life in…