{"id":10435,"date":"2014-05-08T23:21:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T23:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/germans-can-be-so-dry\/"},"modified":"2014-05-08T23:21:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T23:21:09","slug":"germans-can-be-so-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/germans-can-be-so-dry\/","title":{"rendered":"Germans Can Be So Dry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-1390\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1391\" title=\"Gassner Battery\" alt=\"Gassner Battery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/8a5bf__Gassner_battery.jpg\" width=\"95\" height=\"154\" \/>May 8, 1886<\/p>\n<p>German scientist, <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.batteryfacts.co.uk%2FBatteryHistory%2FGassner.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Carl Gassner<\/a>, is issued a German patent for the <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHistory_of_the_battery%231887_-_The_zinc-carbon_cell%3A_the_first_dry_cell\" target=\"_blank\">first \u201cdry\u201d cell battery<\/a>, which uses zinc as its primary component. A U.S. patent will be issued to Gassner in 1887. His battery is much like today\u2019s carbon-zinc, \u201cgeneral purpose\u201d batteries, although most people use alkalines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Previous post: <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F05%2F07%2Fibm-704-introduced%2F\" rel=\"prev\">IBM 704 Introduced<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ccf43__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/05\/08\/germans-can-be-so-dry\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 8, 1886 German scientist, Dr. Carl Gassner, is issued a German patent for the first \u201cdry\u201d cell battery, which uses zinc as its primary component. A U.S. patent will be issued to Gassner in 1887. His battery is much like today\u2019s carbon-zinc, \u201cgeneral purpose\u201d batteries, although most people use alkalines. Previous post: IBM 704 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[3522],"class_list":["post-10435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-germans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}