Batteries

                                                                 

Batteries 

The battery is a device that converts chemical energy into electricity. Like most important inventions, this device has many different versions originating from the 19th century, making the history of the battery quite interesting. The battery is a combination of many different elements that have spawned new and inventive ways of creation through the comprehension of its creation, used for almost every aspect of modern life. The battery has made a progressive transformation from a crude invention made of simple elements to one of complexity and vast potential. The battery has helped in the growth of technology, and has become a big innovation toward modern living because of it.

The invention of the battery can be dated back to 250B.C. in Baghdad, Iraq where it was used in a process to electroplate objects with a thin layer of metal just like how gold and jewelry are plated today. From 1780 to about 1786, Luigi Galvani observed that when pieces of iron and brass are connected to frog's legs, he got them to twitch. This started the interest in what was known as voltaic electricity, after Alessandro Volta. From 1796-1799 he experimented with such elements as Zinc and Silver and invented what was known as the first "dry battery consisting of a pile of the two elements. Before the turn of the century, he had modified this using a salt solution and it was called the "crown of cups . Karl Gilbert Grove in 1839 and Robert Wilhelm Bunsen in 1842 later developed the successful use of liquid electrodes. By 1866, the French Engineer Georges Lelanche had made his own patent out of a porous pot with crushed Manganese dioxide with a little Carbon (positive) mixed in with a Zinc rod (negative). In just two years, his version had sold 20,000 batteries for telegraph machines. The idea of placing both the negative and porous pot into a Zinc capsule was conjured up by J.A. Thiebaut in 1881.

The first evidence of batteries was dated to be from in the neighborhood of 250B.C. These ancient batteries were discovered in archaeological digs in Baghdad, Iraq. These antiquated batteries were used in simple operations to electroplate objects with a thin layer of metal, much the same way we plate things with gold and silver. Much later, batteries were re-discovered in 1800 by a man named Alessandro Volta. The electrical unit of potential was named after him-the volt. Alessandro Volta was born in 1745 and died in 1827, and in this time period he re-produced one of the most important parts of life. He developed the battery by alternating pieces of electrolyte soaked discs (sodium chloride), zinc, and copper plates. These plates and discs were stacked in a 1 2 3 order, and when a wire was placed on the two poles of the battery it would produce electricity. 


I think that this absolutely true about batteries and that life would be hard without electricity. If you had a phone and did not have a battery

in it, you would have to plug it up everywhere you go and some cars don’t have plugs in them.

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