Georges Leclanché
Industrial engineer then French, Georges Leclanché was born in 1839 with Parmain and died on September 14th 1882 in Paris.
He is wire of Léopold Leclanché and Eugenie of Villeneuve.
The political situation of the time obliges his/her parents to be exiled like their friends Victor Hugo or Ledru Rollin in England. It makes its studies in England and only returned to France to enter to the Central École of Arts and Manufactures in 1856. It leaves there in Engineer with promotion 1860.
Employee of the Railroads, it makes research on the batteries, first of all containing Carbonate of copper.
He worked with the development of the electric drive of the hour for the Compagnie of the railroads of the East. The used piles not giving him satisfaction, it makes electrochemical research and studies in laboratory the pile with copper carbonate.
In 1863, the political situation being again tended, it flees France of the Second Empire and chooses to be exiled in Belgium, with Brussels where it created a laboratory. It will develop the first manufactured pile at it in series, using the Manganèse.
It creates a first Pile Leclanché on January 8th 1866 in a small laboratory in a handing-over: it is a pile with copper carbonate. It improves it then develops the first pile with manganese. Its invention is preceded in 1867 with the World Fair of Paris. The latter will be adopted by the Belgian Administration of the telegraphs and the Railroads Dutch and will become the Pile Leclanché.
To the fall of Napoleon III, it returns to France and settles with Paris where it joins Mr. Barbier who animates the factory of the piles known as “Leclanché-Barber”. He is practically the only manufacturer of piles in France and the expansion of the railroads and the Téléphone (with pile) make its fortune.
After the death of Georges, his son max works to improve the pile by introducing a porous bag around the positive electrode. But of many competitors appear, of which Wonder in France and the company périclite. It changes several times of hands, passes under the bosom of Fulmen and is melted finally in group CGE.
The name Leclanché is used today by a company Yverdon noise. Leclanché acquired in 2006 the German company Bullith, become Leclanché Lithium GMBH, based in Willstätt, always in the fields of the piles.
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