Lead-acid rechargeable battery
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- Date
- 1859 · confidence high
- Place
- Paris, France
- Credited to
- Gaston Planté
- People
- 👤 Gaston Planté1834–1889
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
The first rechargeable accumulator, with lead plates in sulphuric acid, capable of delivering very high currents. It remains the starting battery used in cars.
Presented to the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1860.
What it led to
- Electricity storage in power stations and telegraph offices
- Electric vehicles of the late 19th century
- The car's starting battery
- Faure's pasted plates (1881) and industrial production
Built on
- Leadc. 4000 BCE
- Antimonyc. 3000 BCE
- Voltaic pile1800
- Electric generator and self-excited dynamo1832-1867
- Faure pasted plates1880-1881
- Lead electrochemistry (Sinsteden, 1854)
Made possible
- Faure pasted plates1880-1881
- Nickel-cadmium and nickel-iron battery (Jungner and Edison)1899-1901
- Modern lithium-ion electric car (Nissan Leaf, Tesla Model S)2010-2012
- Starter battery
- Uninterruptible power supplies