A Brief History of the Lead Acid Battery

In 2012 the humble lead acid battery celebrated its 153rd birthday. The principles on which a lead acid car battery works haven’t changed much since then. In 1859 a French physicist called Gaston Plante demonstrated the world’s first rechargeable lead-acid battery. To do so he took two long narrow sheets of pure lead, placed one, […]

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