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Experiments in Science: The Grove Cell
With the wisdom of hindsight, it was becoming clear that battery development needed to take…
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A Porous Pot Cell in a Copper Can
John Benjamin Dancer was an eclectic thinker. He built scientific instruments, and invented microphotography which…
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Daniell Cell Solves Hydrogen Bubble Problem
Alessandro Volta’s voltaic pile was a great first step forward in early battery development, but…
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Introduction To The History Of Batteries
Batteries enable portable devices so we can operate independently off the grid. Although they actually…
Battery Basics
Voltage Current Power and Capacity
Customers sometimes ask us to provide a definition for one or other of the above…
Battery Basics
Battery Memory Effect and Self-Discharge
We touched on how battery performance gradually degrades in our earlier post, as a previously…
Battery Technical
The Miracle of Recharging a Battery
We have reached a point in our story where a battery has cycled most of…
Battery Technical
The Secret Battery Manager Electrolyte
Our first two posts in this short series spoke of the electrodes in a battery,…
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Standard Potentials for Half Reactions
We described how the chemistry works in a battery in our previous post, and we…
Battery Experiments
Benjamin Franklin’s Early Electrical Experiment
Benjamin Franklin was a pioneer American writer, scientist, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher.…