Lewis Urry, alkaline battery inventor dies

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Lighting a /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/au.gif (alkaline-based flashlight, that is) in his honor.
 

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I know, old thread, but I just discovered additional information about this guy when looking for the year that alkaline batteries were commercialized.

Full article : http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1437476,00.html

Urry worked with many kinds of battery; he held 51 patents including one for the lithium battery used in mobile phones and cameras.

Don't tell me this battery is either the CR123 (lithium manganese dioxide - not very far removed from ZnMnO2 of alkaline cells) or lithium ion? If so, everything we do today would be unthinkable without the great man - I know for sure that lighting technology would never be the same without lithium MnO2 CR123s!
 

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Thanks for the reminder. I particularly like this quote from the article -

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"He took special pride around Christmas, when there was a rush for batteries, Steven Urry, his son, told the newspaper. "It wasn't until we got older that we realized what he had done."


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A pretty nice and enduring legacy...
 
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