
Batteries
Patented: History of Inventions
Volta's Londed Jars
Benjamin Franklin fell in love with these laden jars. He used them for all of his research to store electricity. The term battery was already being used for a series of laden jars connected together that fired off at once similar to a battery of cannons. So that's where it came from.
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