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  2. History of the battery - Wikipedia

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    Successive improvements in battery technology facilitated major electrical advances, from early scientific studies to the rise of telegraphs and telephones, eventually leading to portable computers, mobile phones, electric cars, and many other electrical devices. Students and engineers developed several commercially important types of battery.

  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 chemist and physicist 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. Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering - Wikipedia

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    By 1910 he developed this into the first real tube amplifier, by creating a triode. His invention of the triode is almost simultaneously created by the American Lee de Forest. Max Dieckmann and Gustav Glage use the Braun tube for playback of 20-line black-and-white images. The first jukebox with records comes on the market.

  5. Electric battery - Wikipedia

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    An electric battery is a source of electric power consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections [1] for powering electrical devices. When a battery is supplying power, its positive terminal is the cathode and its negative terminal is the anode. [2] The terminal marked negative is the source of electrons.

  6. Voltaic pile - Wikipedia

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    The voltaic pile was the first electrical battery that could continuously provide an electric current to a circuit. [1] It was invented by Italian chemist Alessandro Volta, who published his experiments in 1799. [2]

  7. The Invention That Illuminated an Electric Age - AOL

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    On this day in economic and business history... On Oct. 21, 1987, a mere two days after suffering the worst crash in its history, the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted a then-record gain of 186. ...

  8. History of the lithium-ion battery - Wikipedia

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    2008: The launch of Tesla Roadster- the first highway legal, serial production, all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells, and the first production all-electric car to travel more than 244 miles (393 km) per charge- ushered a new era in the history of Li-ion batteries, which is signified as inflection points in the plots "The log number ...

  9. New invention could herald ‘battery revolution’, scientists say

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