Battery Basics
Shift Towards Hybrid Supercapacitors
Our previous three posts reach the inescapable conclusion that neither batteries, nor capacitors meet our…
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Battery Basics
Battery Basics
Imperfect Personal Battery Storage Solution
This is a second article in a short series in which we compare batteries and…
Battery Basics
Let’s Compare Batteries and Capacitors
We can store energy in many different kinds of ways. We could do it, for…
Battery Experiments
What Happens Inside a Leclanche Cell?
Okay, so you went on a school expedition where they showed you a Leclanche cell?…
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William Dubilier’s Mica Dielectric Capacitor
If storage batteries are at the heart of every portable electrical device, we are bound…
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George Mansbridge Metalized Paper Capacitor
George Mansbridge invented the metalized paper capacitor in 1900, and patented it in 1902. The…
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Charles Pollak Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor
Karol Franciszek Pollak was born in south-eastern Poland in 1859. He began working as an…
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The Fitzgerald Paper Capacitor of 1876
Paper capacitors – you may also come across the term fixed capacitors – use paper…
Battery Experiments
Experiment to Measure Capacitor Resistance
We’ve been writing about capacitors and their history lately. So we decided it was time…
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An Introduction to the History of Capacitors
Capacitors are devices for storing electrostatic energy in an electric field. Whereas the batteries such…