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History of Alkaline Batteries Goes a Way Back
Single cell, alkaline batteries first reached world markets in the late 1960’s. Their electrodes were…
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Forgotten Solar Panel World of Frank Shuman
The late 1800’s were a dirty, smoky world in the United States. Demand for energy…
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Andre-Marie Ampere Electromagnetic Pioneer
An ampere (amp) is a single unit of electric current in the International System of…
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Vacuum Tube Batteries in Bygone Times
Electronic circuits in radios and television sets were bulkier before the fully electronic era arrived.…
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Who Invented the Lithium-Ion Battery?
A lithium-ion battery contains rechargeable cells which store energy by temporary reduction. Their anodes are…
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Charles S Bradley Secondary Flow Battery
Charles S Bradley hardly turns up a Google Search result, except in respect of February…
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Flow Battery Power Airship La France
News reports follow what’s hot in editors’ minds, and batteries were more the stuff of…
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What Made the Doyle Flow Battery Unique?
John Doyle successfully obtained his patent for a new device in February 1880. In broad…
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The World’s First Flow Battery in 1879
We introduced John Doyle’s remarkable invention in our previous post – see link below. There,…
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First Flow Battery By John Doyle
A flow battery comprises two different, dissolved chemical constituents stored in separate tanks. These liquids…