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