Batteries & Fuel Cells

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Batteries Fuel Cells

• A history in pictures

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1771-1800 The Galvani-Volta Controversy
Luigi Galvani
Animal Electricity

Alessandro Volta
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1800 The First Battery (Voltaic Pile)
1801 Volta presenting his battery to Napoleon.
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1800 Fathers of Electrolysis
Anthony Carlisle
William Nicholson
Johann Ritter
In 1800, electrolysis was discovered a few months
after Voltas battery. It seems the discovery
was simultaneously made by Nicholson Ritter in
England and by Ritter in Silesia (now Poland) .
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1821 The First Electric Motor1835 The First
BEV (Battery Electric Vehicle)
Michael Faraday
Sibrandus Stratingh
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1836 The Grove Battery and the Daniel Battery
John F. Daniel
Daniells Battery
Groves Battery
Groves Battery provided more power than Voltas
battery but leaked poisonous gas. Daniels
battery was safer and was used in the first
telegraphs.
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1838 Backwards Electrolysis
Christian Friedrich Schönbein
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1839 First Fuel Cell (Groves Gas Battery)
Sir William Grove
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1859 The Lead battery is invented1887 The
first full-scale electric car
Gaston Plante
Lead-Acid Battery
1888 Morrisons electric car ran on 24 lead-acid
battery cells. Here it is shown at a Des Moines
parade.
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1889 Improved Fuel Cell1897 Electric Taxis
1901 Nickel-Iron Rechargeable Battery (Edison
Battery)
Mond Langers Fuel Cell
1910 The Edison Battery is tried in a automobile
NY Electric Taxi
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1912 Rechargeable BEV1939-1958 BEVs off
market1959 The Henney Kilowatt
Edison with a 1912 Detroit Electric
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1959 The Alkali Fuel Cell1967 First Fuel Cell
Vehicle
1965 A U.S. Army soldier operates a portable
drillpowered by an alkali fuel cell.
Francis Thomas Bacon with his Alkali Fuel cell.
Karl Kordesch rides his alkali fuel cell
motorbike.
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1961-1969The Apollo Project
Fuel cells are used to power the spacecraft
computers and life-support systems because they
are safer than nuclear and smaller than solar.
The astronauts drink the water that is produced
from the electrolysis.
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1975 BEV range to charge is still only 60
miles1979 The fuel cell golf cart
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1994 Fuel cell bus1996 GMs EV1
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2007 GM Sequel and Tesla Roadster
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Why choose cars for our project?
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References

• http//dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/Gallery/Gallery0.html
  pictures of scientists
• http//www.eere.energy.gov/hydrogenandfuelcells/fu
  elcells/fc_types.html types of fuel cells
• http//www.corrosion-doctors.org/Biographies/Grove
  Bio.htm sir william grove
• http//chem.ch.huji.ac.il/eugeniik/history/nichol
  son.html willliam nicholson
• http//inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarsel
  ectric2a.htm history of BEVs
• http//americanhistory.si.edu/fuelcells/phos/pafcm
  ain.htm fuel cell history