Battery Basics
Electrode Chemistry Inside a Storage Battery
We established in a previous post how electrons travel between electrodes in a battery to…
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The Chemistry of an Electric Battery
A battery stores chemical energy, and converts it to electricity when a device draws it.…
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Build an Electric Magnet at School or Home
A magnetic field is a directional force attracting ferromagnetic materials such as iron. This may…
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Camille Faure’s Coated Lead Sheet Battery
Camille Alphonse Faure was a French chemical engineer who improved the performance of early lead…
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Was the Jacobi Lead Battery Ahead of Planté?
This may be your most intriguing battery read for some time. Our source is a…
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Planté’s Choice of Lead & Why He Made It
Planté’s choice of lead was an unexpected departure from a convention of using copper and…
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Cruickshank Trough Eliminates a Pile of Woes
The Voltaic Pile was a great start, and was in a sense the first real…
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Make a Baghdad Battery of Your Own
The Baghdad Battery could have been the world’s first storage cell, but we may never…
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Benjamin Franklin Imagines a Battery
It is almost impossible to imagine a world without batteries. Although electricity has always been…
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Beginning of the History of Lead-Acid Batteries
Did you know that the lead-acid battery was the first commercially viable cell, and that…