Battery inventors
24 entries in the Battery Inventors compendium.
Michel ArmandIntroduced the rocking-chair battery concept in 1978.Golding BirdBritish physician who advanced kidney disease study and medical electrotherapy.Robert BunsenGerman chemist who discovered caesium and rubidium and invented the Bunsen burner.Josiah Latimer ClarkEnglish electrical engineer who advanced telegraphy and electrical standards.Laurence CroguennecFrench chemist and battery inventor specializing in solid-state chemistry.William Cruickshank (chemist)Scottish chemist and inventor of the trough battery.John Frederic DaniellEnglish chemist and physicist who invented the Daniell cell.Camille Alphonse FaureFrench chemical engineer who improved the lead-acid battery.Carl GassnerGerman physician who invented the first practical dry cell battery.William Robert GroveWelsh judge and scientist who anticipated energy conservation.Robert Hare (chemist)Early American chemist and later Spiritualist author.John C. LincolnInventor, entrepreneur, and vice-presidential candidate under the Commonwealth Land Party.Stanford R. OvshinskySelf-taught inventor of amorphous materials and energy technologies.Gaston PlantéFrench physicist who invented the first rechargeable battery.Johann Christian PoggendorffGerman physicist known for electrical instruments and editing a leading journal.Johann Wilhelm RitterGerman Romantic scientist who discovered ultraviolet light and electroplating.Samuel RubenAmerican inventor who founded Duracell and held over 300 patents.Nathan StubblefieldAmerican inventor of early wireless telephone demonstrations.Esther TakeuchiInventor of the silver vanadium oxide battery for implantable defibrillators.Lewis UrryCanadian-American engineer who invented the alkaline battery.Edward Weston (chemist)English-born American chemist and engineer, inventor of the Weston cell.William Hyde WollastonEnglish chemist and physicist who discovered palladium and rhodium.Sakizō YaiJapanese inventor of a dry cell battery and electric clock.Giuseppe ZamboniItalian priest and physicist who invented the Zamboni pile.
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