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How Batteries Changed the World Around
Trying to imagine the world around us without batteries would be a difficult task. We…
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What Electrolytes Are And How They Work
Svante Arrhenius took his first breath in Vic Castle, Sweden in 1859. By the age…
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More Thoughts about the Baghdad Batteries
A curator stumbled over six strange contraptions in the basement of the Baghdad Museum in…
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A Brief History of Flow Batteries
We wrote yesterday about flow batteries. And how a professor hopes to use them to…
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Accumulators, Capacitors and Airships
In a previous post we mentioned that early airships had motors powered by electricity stored…
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Akira Yoshino Father of Lithium-Ion Batteries
Many scientists worked in tandem in the 1980’s to invent long-life, rechargeable lithium batteries. In…
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A Short History of the Battery World
A battery stores electricity using an anode and a cathode electrode, an electrolyte, and an…
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How Leak-Proof Batteries (Almost) Happened
We had to add the ‘almost’, since they say the only definite things in life…
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William Robert Grove’s Fuel Cells
We find it amazing how some brilliant ideas take centuries to catch on while others,…
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Gaston Planté’s Lead-Acid Cell Battery
Gaston Planté was a physicist born 22 April 1834 in Orthez, France near the Spanish…