{"id":14550,"date":"2018-05-08T23:16:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T23:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/germans-can-be-so-dry-2\/"},"modified":"2018-05-08T23:16:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T23:16:29","slug":"germans-can-be-so-dry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/germans-can-be-so-dry-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Germans Can Be So Dry"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/2018\/05\/6488f__Gassner_battery.jpg\" width=\"95\" height=\"154\" \/>May 8, 1886<\/p>\n<p>German scientist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.batteryfacts.co.uk\/BatteryHistory\/Gassner.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Carl Gassner<\/a>, is issued a German patent for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_battery#1887_-_The_zinc-carbon_cell:_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&#8217;s carbon-zinc, &#8220;general purpose&#8221; batteries, although most people use alkalines.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/05\/08\/germans-can-be-so-dry\/\">Germans Can Be So Dry<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><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&#8217;s carbon-zinc, &#8220;general purpose&#8221; batteries, although most people use alkalines. The post Germans Can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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-14550","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\/14550"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}