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The Electric Storage Battery Company, which would one day become Exide Technologies, was founded in the USA in 1888 by W.W. Gibbs, an executive at a gas company, who had seen the potential of electricity as a source of lighting. He purchased the patents of [[Clement Payen]], a French inventor who advanced electrical storage, and began transforming those ideas into reliable commercial products.<ref>[] Exide Technologies website</ref> | |||
See also [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exide Wikipedia entry]. | |||
1920 October. [[Chloride Electrical Storage Co|Chloride]] exhibited '''Ironclad Exide''' batteries for road vehicles at the Commercial Motor Exhibition at Olympia<ref>[[The Engineer]] of 22nd October 1920 p400</ref> | 1920 October. [[Chloride Electrical Storage Co|Chloride]] exhibited '''Ironclad Exide''' batteries for road vehicles at the Commercial Motor Exhibition at Olympia<ref>[[The Engineer]] of 22nd October 1920 p400</ref> |
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Batteries and accumulators
The Electric Storage Battery Company, which would one day become Exide Technologies, was founded in the USA in 1888 by W.W. Gibbs, an executive at a gas company, who had seen the potential of electricity as a source of lighting. He purchased the patents of Clement Payen, a French inventor who advanced electrical storage, and began transforming those ideas into reliable commercial products.[1]
See also Wikipedia entry.
1920 October. Chloride exhibited Ironclad Exide batteries for road vehicles at the Commercial Motor Exhibition at Olympia[2]
1938 Exide Company. D. P. Dunne is Chairman, E. C. McKinnon is Chief Engineer
Post-WWII Exide low tension accumulators and Drydex high tension batteries sold for use in radios (see adverts).
1989 Chloride sold the Exide Europe automotive battery business[3]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ [] Exide Technologies website
- ↑ The Engineer of 22nd October 1920 p400
- ↑ The Times, May 24, 1989