History of Batteries
Though this is widely acknowledged as the first use of energy storage systems, some archaeologists theorize it was first utilized in Baghdad over 2,000 years ago. Discovered
A solar battery converts the sun's energy into electricity. In 1954, Gerald Pearson, Calvin Fuller, and Daryl Chapin invented the first solar battery. The inventors created an array of several strips of silicon (each about the size of a razor blade), placed them in sunlight, captured the free electrons and turned them into electrical current.
Bell Laboratories in New York announced the prototype manufacture of a new solar battery. Bell had funded the research. The first public service trial of the Bell Solar Battery began with a telephone carrier system (Americus, Georgia) on October 4, 1955. 1964 —Duracell was incorporated. Bellis, Mary. "History and Timeline of the Battery."
They were able to convert 6% of sunlight into usable electricity, making this the first example of a practical solar battery. In 2008, Chapin, Fuller, and Pearson were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame at the United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia
However, it took several decades for this vision to become tangible. The global growth of PV has only really gained momentum in the last 10 years. While 1 GW of PV power was installed worldwide throughout 2004, by 2010 it was at 1 GW per month.
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