Article ID: CBB001420236

Scientific Practice for Technology: Hermann Aron's Development of the Storage Battery (2013)

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The article discusses the 1880 invention of a high-capacity lead storage battery, a rechargeable electrochemical cell to store and release electricity, by German physicist Hermann Aron of Berlin University. It considers how the field of electricity developed throughout the nineteenth-century, noting developments including the 1800 creation of the battery by Alessandro Volta, direct and alternating currents, and incandescent lighting. The phenomena of simultaneous inventions of new technologies such as the telephone, rechargeable batteries, and radio is explored.

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Authors & Contributors
Chang, Hasok
Katzir, Shaul
Mertens, Joost
Bevilacqua, Fabio
Finger, Stanley
Freeberg, Ernest F.
Journals
American Journal of Physics
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
History and Technology
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Princeton University
MIT Press
Penguin
Princeton University Press
Università degli Studi di Pavia
Concepts
Electricity; magnetism
Physics
Batteries
Lighting, electric
Technology
Electrochemistry
People
Volta, Alessandro
Aron, Hermann
Davy, Humphry
Galvani, Luigi
Abbe, Ernst
Arons, Leo
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
Places
Great Britain
Germany
United States
Europe
Italy
South America
Institutions
Freie Universität Berlin
British Association for the Advancement of Science
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