• gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    12 days ago

    There’s one more outlier though which is Electrochemical cell, like galvanic element or voltaic pile

    It was used around 1800 as a major electricity source, but I guess it quickly became uneconomical in 1866 or sth when the dynamo was invented.

    Edit: wait yes, it actually says this in the second paragraph of the linked article:

    The entire 19th-century electrical industry was powered by batteries related to Volta’s (e.g. the Daniell cell and Grove cell) until the advent of the dynamo (the electrical generator) in the 1870s.