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  2. History of the battery - Wikipedia

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    The NCC improved Gassner's model by replacing the plaster of Paris with coiled cardboard, an innovation that left more space for the cathode and made the battery easier to assemble. It was the first convenient battery for the masses and made portable electrical devices practical, and led directly to the invention of the flashlight.

  3. Automotive battery - Wikipedia

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    The first starting and charging systems were designed to be 6-volt and positive-ground systems, with the vehicle's chassis directly connected to the positive battery terminal. [10] Today, almost all road vehicles have a negative ground system. [11] The negative battery terminal is connected to the car's chassis.

  4. Silver zinc battery - Wikipedia

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    These cells are found in applications for the military, for example in Mark 37 torpedoes and on Alfa-class submarines. in the 1960s General Motors developed an electric car called Electrovair, which was powered by a zinc-silver battery produced by Eagle-Picher. [5] However, the battery was expensive and lasted only a hundred charge-discharge ...

  5. Thermal energy storage - Wikipedia

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    An encapsulated thermal battery is physically similar to a phase change thermal battery in that it is a confined amount of physical material which is thermally heated or cooled to store or extract energy. However, in a non-phase change encapsulated thermal battery, the temperature of the substance is changed without inducing a phase change.

  6. State of charge - Wikipedia

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    In a battery electric vehicle (BEV), the state of charge indicates the remaining energy in the battery pack. [4] It is the equivalent of a fuel gauge.. The state of charge can help to reduce electrical car's owners' anxiety when they are waiting in the line or stay at home since it will reflect the progress of charging and let owners know when it will be ready. [5]

  7. Transposition (music) - Wikipedia

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    In this chromatic transposition, the melody on the first line is in the key of D, while the melody on the second line is identical except that it is a major third lower, in the key of B ♭. In music , transposition refers to the process or operation of moving a collection of notes ( pitches or pitch classes ) up or down in pitch by a constant ...

  8. Electric charge - Wikipedia

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    Electric charge is a conserved property: the net charge of an isolated system, the quantity of positive charge minus the amount of negative charge, cannot change. Electric charge is carried by subatomic particles. In ordinary matter, negative charge is carried by electrons, and positive charge is carried by the protons in the nuclei of atoms ...

  9. Nickel–iron battery - Wikipedia

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    He developed the battery to be the battery of choice [22] for electric vehicles, which were the preferred transportation mode in the early 1900s (followed by gasoline and steam). Edison's batteries had a significantly higher energy density than the lead–acid batteries in use at the time, and could be charged in half the time; however, they ...