What is Electric Battery ?

During the 1860s, Georges Leclanché invented the wet cell, which, though heavy because of its liquid components, could be sold and used commercially. By the 1870s and 1880s, the Leclanché cell was being produced using dry materials and was used for a number of tasks, including providing power for Alexander Graham Bell's telephone and for the newly-invented flashlight.

Smoke Detectors mostly chirp in the dead of night because the chemical reaction in batteries slows down when the air get’s colder thus tripping the detectors low battery detector.

The city of Fairbanks, Alaska holds the world’s largest rechargeable battery, which powers the whole city during outages.

LES1, a satellite that had been abandoned in 1967, recently started transmitting again, after its batteries decayed, shorting the solar panels straight to the electronics

Batteries were subsequently called upon to provide power for many other inventions, such as the radio, which became hugely popular in the years following World War I. Today, more than twenty billion power cells are sold throughout the world each year, and each American uses approximately 27 batteries annually.

Old batteries are recycled into fertilizer to help grow corn.

There is a battery-powered bell at Oxford University that has been continuously ringing for over 175 years. No one knows what the battery is composed of and no one wants to take the device apart in order to figure it out.

Disposable electronic cigarettes contain perfectly good rechargeable lithium-ion batteries

Once the Tesla Gigafactory is operating at 100% capacity, it will churn out more lithium-ion batteries in one year than were produced worldwide in 2013.

During the early hours of the Fukushima, nuclear disaster plant employees scavenged car batteries to power essential monitoring equipment in the plant.

All batteries utilize similar procedures to create electricity; however, variations in materials and construction have produced different types of batteries. Strictly speaking, what is commonly termed a battery is actually a group of linked cells.

It is optimal for your lithium-ion smartphone battery to top it off and keep its charge between 40-80%, rather than let it drain 0% and charge it all the way up.

Disposable electronic cigarettes contain perfectly good rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.

Petroleum companies bought rights to battery patents and sued anyone who used them (with gag orders).

The Frog Battery was used in early electrical research, it consists of dead or sometimes live frogs which form the cells of the battery.

Two important parts of any cell are the anode and the cathode. The cathode is a metal that is combined, naturally or in the laboratory, with oxygen—the combination is called an oxide. Iron oxide (rust), although too fragile to use in a battery, is perhaps the most familiar oxide.

It is optimal for your lithium-ion smartphone battery to top it off and keep its charge between 40-80%, rather than let it drain 0% and charge it all the way up.

The Germans invented an infrared scope during WWII. A 13-kilogram battery pack was worn on the back, and the scope could be used for 15 minutes at a time. It was codenamed Vampir

The first known battery dates back 2000 years, could produce up to 2 volts, and its use was unknown.

Some other oxides are actually strong enough to be worked (cut, bent, shaped, molded, and so on) and used in a cell. The anode is a metal that would oxidize if it were allowed to and, other things being equal, is more likely to oxidize than the metal that forms part of the cathode.

It is possible to make a battery that will last centuries using nuclear waste and artificial diamonds.

Petroleum companies bought rights to battery patents and sued anyone who used them (with gag orders)

The benchmark used in PC battery life tests overstates true battery life by 50%. The productivity test involves running the office at lowest possible brightness with Wi-Fi off

A cell produces electricity when one end of a cathode and one end of an anode are placed into a third substance that can conduct electricity, while their other ends are connected. The anode draws oxygen atoms toward it, thereby creating an electric flow.

If all new cars produced were powered by lithium batteries, the world would run out of lithium in ~30 years.