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Gaston Plante(1834-1889) |
The lead-acid battery was created in 1859 by
French physicist Gaston Planté (22 April 1834 – 21 May 1889). This kind of
battery was created as the initial rechargeable electric battery to be
commercially commercialised, and it is frequently used in cars.
Planté was born in
France's Orthez on April 22, 1834. He started working as an assistant physics
lecturer at the Paris Conservatory of Arts and Crafts in 1854. He was given the
title of Physics Professor at the Polytechnic Association for the Development of
Popular Instruction in 1860 after being promoted to that position. At that
university, he has an amphitheatre named after him.
The lead-acid battery was
created in 1859 by French physicist Gaston Planté (22 April 1834 – 21 May
1889). This kind of battery was created as the initial rechargeable electric
battery to be commercially commercialised, and it is frequently used in cars.
Planté was born in
France's Orthez on April 22, 1834. He started working as an assistant physics
lecturer at the Paris Conservatory of Arts and Crafts in 1854. He was given the
title of Physics Professor at the Polytechnic Association for the Development
of Popular Instruction in 1860 after being promoted to that position. At that
university, he has an amphitheatre named after him.
Lead-acid battery
The lead-acid cell, the
first rechargeable battery, was created by Planté in 1859. His initial design
was a spiral roll made of two sheets of pure lead that were divided by a linen
fabric and submerged in a solution of sulfuric acid in a glass jar.He gave a
nine-cell lead-acid battery to the Academy of Sciences the following year. A
more effective and dependable model would be created by Camille Alphonse Faure
in 1881, and early electric cars would find tremendous success with it.
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Planté also
looked at the distinctions between static electricity and dynamic electricity
(battery-generated electricity, for example). Planté created the Rheostatic
Machine, a mechanical invention, as part of this work. The Rheostatic Machine
alternately charged a bank of capacitors in parallel (from a high-voltage
battery source) and connected the capacitors in series using a bank of mica
capacitors, a cunning rotating commutator, and a series of contacts. In order
to achieve exceptionally high voltages, this configuration increased the
battery voltage by the quantity of capacitor stages.
A stream of high-voltage
sparks several centimetres long might be produced quickly by rapidly spinning
the shaft. The mechanical forerunner of the Marx generator used today was this
device. Plante studied the electrical breakdown of air, the development of
Lichtenberg figures, and the behaviour of thin wires when subjected to large
electric current pulses using this apparatus