Plante, Gaston

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The very first functioning lead-acid battery was presented by Gaston Plante in 1860 spirally would lead sheets served as electrodes, separated by a layer of felt — the first separator of a lead-acid battery [12], This assembly in a cylindrical vessel in 10% sulfuric acid had only a low capacity, which prompted Plante to undertake a variety of experiments resulting in many improvements that are still connected with... 

The hrst working lead cell, manufactured in 1859 by a French scientist, Gaston Plante, consisted of two lead plates separated by a strip of cloth, coiled, and inserted into a jar with sulfuric acid. A surface layer of lead dioxide was produced by electrochemical reactions in the first charge cycle. Later developments led to electrodes made by pasting a mass of lead oxides and sulfuric oxide into grids of lead-antimony alloy. 

Tixier J., Dusserre G., Salvi O., Gaston D., 2002. Review of 62 risk analysis methodologies of industrial plants, Journal of Loss Prevention in the process industries 15, pp. 291-303. 

The most well-known storage cell is the lead-acid cell, which was invented by GASTON PLANTE in 1859 and is still the most widely used device of its type. The cell is represented by... 

Gaston Plante (French) Invents the first practical lead-acid storage cell... 

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... 

Fig. l.l. (a) Gaston Plante s cell and battery (b) flat plate (c) tubular positive plate (d) spiral-wound cell. 

ROUHiER, A. 1927. La Plante quifait les Yeux Emerveilles—Le Peyotl (Echinocactus Williamsit Lem.). Gaston Doin et C, Paris, France. Preface by E. Perrot. 

A. Rouhier, La plante qui fait les yeux 6merveill5s, Gaston Doin, Paris, 1927. 

Gaston Plante — The Inventor of the Lead—Acid Battery... 

Gaston Plante established that the secondary current (as was then called) that flowed through a cell with lead plates separated by rubber strips and immersed in 10% sulfuric acid solution... 

On 26 March 1860, Gaston Plante demonstrated before the French Academy of Sciences the first rechargeable lead—acid battery comprising nine cells connected in parallel and presented a lecture entitled Nouvelle pile secondaire d une grande puissance (Fig. 1.3) [5]. This was practically the birth certificate of the lead—acid battery. 

Raymond-Louis Gaston Plante was bom on 22 April 1834 in the town of Orthez, Basses-Pyrenees province in France. 

The Plante family seems to have been bom under a lucky star. All three brothers, Leopold (born 1832), Gaston (born 1834) and Francis (bom 1839), gained national, and even international, fame. Leopold Plante was one of the leaders of lawyers in Paris Francis Plante was a brilliant piano player who amazed the cultural world of his time with his talent. He was called God of the piano and gave concerts until the age of 91. The Plante family was an old and highly respected family from Orthez [6]. The father of the three brothers, Pierre (Pedro), and their... 

Gaston Plante started his education at a private school and then went to the Lycee Charlemagne. At the age of 16, he became Bachelor of Letters and at 19, Bachelor of Science. Then he attended the most renowned university in Paris, La Sorbonne, and in 1855 he obtained the degree Master of Science. 

During his university years Gaston impressed his professors with his analytic mind, practical skills and extraordinary dexterity in doing experimental work. Because of these qualities of the young student. Prof. Edmond Becquerel chose Gaston Plante as assistant in his laboratory at the Conservatory of Arts and Crafts. 

In the middle of the nineteenth century, laboratory experiments demonstrated ever more clearly the great potential of electricity to be of help to people and to change fundamentally their everyday life. Gaston Plante was among the first to realise this and started investigations of various electrical phenomena. His experiments were very impressive. On 28 March 1858, he was chosen to demonstrate before Emperor Napoleon the Third and the Empress, in Palais de Tuileries, the principal electrical experiments that were known at that time [7]. 

Gaston Plante was very active in the field of electrochemistry. He replaced the then used platinum electrode with lead electrode in the process of reproduction of full-relief figures in galvanoplastics. This method was employed for the fabrication of the sculptures decorating the front of the Opera house in Paris. In 1866, Gaston Plante explored the electrolytic production of ozone. He came to the conclusion that production of ozone should be performed using lead electrodes instead of platinum. 

Despite his significant achievements in the field of electrochemistry, Gaston Plante remains essentially a physicist. Since 1873, he studied the difference between static and dynamic electricity as well as high-voltage phenomena. 

His contemporaries describe Gaston Plante as a very kind-hearted, modest and unselfish man, fully dedicated to his work — a real workaholic (Fig. 1.5). 

Gaston Plante never protected his inventions by patents and showed no interest in obtaining material benefits from them. He refused all kinds of privileges. Being a widely recognized scientist, when invited to run for Member of the French Academy of Sciences, he declined the offer saying that he would lose much time in preparation for the election and would rather prefer to spend this time working in his laboratory. 

When the President of the Society for Encouragement of National Industry, the renowned chemist Dumas, presented the Ampere Medal to Gaston Plante he said I am happy to give you this medal bearing the effigy of Ampere and am sure that in the future our successors will give a medal with your effigy. [6]. 

Gaston Plante donated the sum of 10,000 Francs, which he received with the Lacaze Prize, to the Friends of Science Society to help scientists in need, and he sold the two golden medals and gave the money to the poor. 

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