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  2. History of the battery - Wikipedia

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    Seeing a way to make a profit in the already competitive lead-acid battery market, Thomas Edison worked in the 1890s on developing an alkaline based battery that he could get a patent on. Edison thought that if he produced a lightweight and durable battery electric cars would become the standard, with his firm as its main battery vendor.

  3. Alessandro Volta - Wikipedia

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    Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (UK: / ˈ v ɒ l t ə /, US: / ˈ v oʊ l t ə /; Italian: [alesˈsandro ˈvɔlta]; 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827) was an Italian physicist and chemist who was a pioneer of electricity and power, [1] [2] [3] and is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane.

  4. Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid - Wikipedia

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    The bulk of the introduction follows the story of a man and a woman who live in a small grass hut in a village surrounded by a horseradish field. They generally live a routine life, and, as they have no taste for the horseradish, spend most of their time hunting to prepare raisin-stuffed snails to provide for their meals.

  5. Binge-Watched 'Heartstopper'? Check Out These 20 Books - AOL

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    Heartstopper Series Volume 1-4 Books Set By Alice Oseman. OK, first, if you haven't read Alice Oseman's original Heartstopper graphic novels, start here. Read more: A Guide to All the Heartstopper ...

  6. 'Saddest Girl on the Beach' highlights personal struggle amid ...

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    The story in “The Saddest Girl on the Beach” is bookended by hurricanes about nine months apart. Billed as a companion novel to Zanesville native Heather Frese’s “The Baddest Girl on the ...

  7. Narratives of Empire - Wikipedia

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    Though Burr (1973) is the second book published in the series, it is first chronologically, taking placed in 1775–1808, 1833–1836, and 1840. [2] [3] In the novel, set during the politically contentious era of the Jackson administration, an elderly and active Aaron Burr recounts his experiences of the Revolutionary War and America's Founding Fathers to a young law clerk secretly working for ...

  8. List of battery sizes - Wikipedia

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    3LR12 (4.5-volt), D, C, AA, AAA, AAAA (1.5-volt), A23 (12-volt), PP3 (9-volt), CR2032 (3-volt), and LR44 (1.5-volt) batteries (Matchstick for reference). This is a list of the sizes, shapes, and general characteristics of some common primary and secondary battery types in household, automotive and light industrial use.

  9. Landmark Books (series) - Wikipedia

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    The series expanded in 1953 to include world history as a sub-series called World Landmark Books, and a second sub-series of larger-format books illustrated with color artwork or black and white photographs was introduced in the 1960s as Landmark Giant, which would continue releasing new titles beyond the end of the main series until 1974 ...