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
Mertens, Joost
Katzir, Shaul
Moore, Abigail Harrison
Parent, André
Cambiaghi, Marco
Heth, Christopher L.
Concepts
Electricity; magnetism
Physics
Batteries
Lighting, electric
Technology
Technology and society
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
Enlightenment
21st century
Places
Germany
United States
Great Britain
South America
Italy
Europe
Institutions
British Association for the Advancement of Science
Freie Universität Berlin
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