Innovators in Battery Technology

Kevin Desmond, a technology historian and biographer, lives near Bordeaux in southern France. Since 1976, he has published 33 books and 300-plus articles on the men and women innovators, often forgotten, behind the progress of transport and related subjects.

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Acknowledgments deletev

Foreword by Michael Halls

Preface

The Innovators (A–Z)

André, ­Henri-Georges (1896–1967)

Bacon, Francis Thomas (1904–1992)

Bagotsky, Vladimir Sergeevich (1920–2012)

Bagshaw, Norman Ernest (1933– )

Bain, Alexander (1810–1877)

Barak, Montefiore (1904–1989)

Bode, Hans Heinrich Christian (1905–1989)

Böhnstedt, Werner (1945– )

Brush, Charles Francis (1849–1929)

Bullock, Kathryn R. (1945– )

Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard (1811–1899)

Burbank, Jeanne B. (1915–2002)

Burgess, Charles Frederick (1873–1945)

Cairns, Elton James (1932– )

Callan, Nicholas Joseph (1799–1864)

Chapin, Daryl M. (1906–1995), Calvin Souther Fuller (1902–1994) and

Gerald Leondus Pearson (1905–1987)

Clark, Josiah Latimer (1822–1898)

Coetzer, Johan (1941– )

Conway, Brian Evans (1927–2005)

Cooper, John Frederick (1946– )

Daniell, John Frederic (1790–1845)

Davy, Humphry (1778–1829)

Devitt, John Lawrence (1925– )

Dicks, Andrew Leslie (1948– )

Drumm, James J. (1897–1974)

Edison, Thomas Alva (1847–1931)

Faure, Camille Alphonse (1840–1898)

Feder, David O. (1924–2011)

Franklin, Benjamin (1706–1790)

Furukawa, Jun (1957– )

Garche, Jürgen Werner (1944– )

Gassner, Carl (1839–1882)

Goodenough, John Bannister (1922– )

Grätzel, Michael (1944– )

Greatbatch, Wilson (1919–2011)

Green, Martin Andrew (1948– )

Grey, Clare P. (1965– )

Grove, William Robert (1811–1896)

Hare, Robert (1781–1858)

Haring, Howard Egbert (1898–1965)

Hatazawa, Tsuyonobu (1962– )

Hellesen, Frederik Louis Wilhelm (1836–1892)

Jache, Otto (1915–1993)

Jacques, William W. (1855–1932)

Jedlik, Ányos (1800–1895)

Jungner, Ernst Waldemar (1869–1924)

Kabanov, Boris Nikolaevich (1904–1988)

Kelley, Kurtis C. (1952– )

Kirchhof, Charles F. (1811–1882)

König, Wilhelm (fl. 1930s)

Kordesch, Karl V. (1922–2011)

Lam, Lan Trieu (1953– )

Leclanché, Georges (1839–1882)

Lewis, Gilbert Newton (1875–1946) and Frederick George Keyes (1885–1976)

Monahov, Boris Ivanov (1954– )

Moseley, Patrick Timothy (1943– )

Musschenbroek, Pieter (Petrus) van (1692–1761)

Nora, Vittorio de (1912–2008)

Ogumi, Zempachi (1945– )

Ohl, Russell Shoemaker (1898–1987)

Ovshinsky, Stanford Robert (1922–2012)

Pavlov, Detchko (1930– )

Peters, Kenneth (1928– )

Pierson, John Ronald (1936– )

Planté, ­Raymond-Louis-Gaston (1834–1889)

Prengaman, R. David (1943– )

Rand, David Anthony James (1942—)

Renard, Charles (1847–1905)

Ritter, Johann Wilhelm (1776–1810)

Ruben, Samuel (1900–1988)

Ruetschi, Paul (1925– )

Sadoway, Donald Robert (1950– )

Salkind, Alvin J. (1927–2015)

Sampson, Henry Thomas (1934– )

Sastry, Ann Marie (1967– )

Scrosati, Bruno (1937– )

Sinsteden, Wilhelm Josef (1803–1891)

Skyllas-Kazacos, Maria (1951– )

Smee, Alfred (1818–1877)

Sudworth, James (1939–2013)

Takeuchi, Esther Sans (1953– )

Thackeray, Michael Makepeace (1949– )

Tobias, Charles W. (1920–1996)

Trouvé, Gustave Pierre (1939–1902)

Urry, Lewis F. (1927–2004)

Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio (1745–1827)

Voss, Ernst Christian Hinrich (1923–2004)

Whittingham, M. Stanley (1941– )

Wollaston, William Hyde (1766–1828)

Yai, Sakizou (1863–1927)

Yeager, Ernest B. (1924–2002)

Zamboni, Giuseppe (1776–1846)

Appendix: Timeline

Bibliography

Index