Faure, Camille

The fundamental elements of the lead-acid battery were set in place over 100 years ago. Gaston Plante [2] was the first to report that a useful discharge current could be drawn from a pair of lead plates that had been immersed in sulfuric acid and subjected to a charging current. Later, Camille Faure [3] proposed the concept of... 

In 1881, Camille Faure coated the lead plates with a paste of red lead oxide, sulfuric acid and water, and then charged them to form Pb and Pb02 active masses. The specific energy of the battery increased to 8 Wh kg at 10 hours discharge rate [12]. 

De la Rive, Marianini and BecquereT gave an explanation which is really the same as Volta s. The modern lead accumulator developed from researches of Gaston Plante (Orthez, Basses Pyrenees, 22 April 1834-Paris, 21 May 1889) and Camille Faure. ... 

Rechargeable elements trace back to Johann Wilhelm Ritter, while the invention of the lead-acid battery is attached to such famous names as Gaston Plante, Camille Faure, Henry Tudor, and Volkmar. The industrial production began over 100 years ago and it demonstrates the difficulty implemented in electrochemical elements that even today sometimes the behavior of a battery can t be foreseen or explained totally. On the field of maintenance-free lead-acid batteries Otto Jache made a break-through in 1957 after extensive preparatory work by many others. 

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