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Batteries

Patented: History of Inventions

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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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