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Who are batteries named after?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

Nobody. The word battery - in its many senses - comes from Latin via French and simply meant 'to beat'. From the related link:

Extension to "electrical cell" (1748, first used by Ben Franklin) is perhaps via notion of "discharges" of electricity.

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