The Things From Japan: Dry Cell Battery

Hope you are doing well.

Yesterday, I wrote about the things from Japan that everyone knows in the world.

So, I want to dig about the things.

The first product is... Dry cell battery.

Dry cell battery

Some of you may surprise that dry cell battery is made in Japan first.

Here is the short history.

The person who made it first was Zouzan Sakuma (1811 - 1864), and it was called Daniel battery, which is liquid battery.

In Meiji Era, the dry cell battery was born in Japan as the first time in the World.

The inventor was Sakizo Yai from Nigata prefecture in 1863.

He worked in watch shop and he succeeded to invent the watch which worked precisely with battery when he was 23 years old (1885).

6 years later, it was recognized as patent, and it was the first patent in Japan in terms of electricity.

However, the battery was Daniel battery, so it needed the care and cleaning. That was why they started to invent dry cell battery.

He tried to invent so hard and hard because there were lots of problems to being completed.

In 1887, the dry cell battery was successfully invented. However, the its patent was not of Sakizo Yai, but of Ichisaburo Takahashi.

In foreign countries, this invention was known of the contribution of Carl Gassner from Germany in 1888.

I do not understand why Carl Gassner got the patent before Japan...

Now, the dry cell battery is used in the world almost everyday! The technology is progressing!

That's it about the dry cell battery in my blog :)

Today's topic is little bit serious one huh lol

But, I think this is interesting story and some of you did not know that!!

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