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Seeing a way to make a profit in the already competitive lead-acid battery market, Thomas Edison worked in the 1890s on developing an alkaline based battery that he could get a patent on. Edison thought that if he produced a lightweight and durable battery electric cars would become the standard, with his firm as its main battery vendor.
1887 - James Moser reports dye sensitized photoelectrochemical cell. 1888 - Edward Weston receives patent US389124, "Solar cell," and US389125, "Solar cell." 1888–91 - Aleksandr Stoletov creates the first solar cell based on the outer photoelectric effect; 1894 - Melvin Severy receives patent US527377, "Solar cell," and US527379, "Solar cell."
Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented the battery. 1804: Thomas Young: Wave theory of light, Vision and color theory: 1808: Atomic theory by John Dalton: 1816: English inventor Francis Ronalds built the first working electric telegraph. 1820: Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted accidentally discovered that an electric field creates a ...
Charles Fritts (1850 – 1903 [1]) was the American inventor credited with creating the first working selenium cell in 1883.. According to CleanTechnica, the world's first rooftop solar array, using Fritts' selenium cells, was installed in 1884 on a New York City rooftop. [2]
1781: William Herschel announces discovery of Uranus, expanding the known boundaries of the Solar System for the first time in modern history. 1785: William Withering: publishes the first definitive account of the use of foxglove for treating dropsy. 1787: Jacques Charles: Charles's law of ideal gases.
Our life-giving death star is experiencing its "solar maximum," which sounds like the name of a Christian rock band and is defined as the peak activity period within the sun's 11-year solar cycle.
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