Galvanic batteries, wood engravings, published in 1876 - stock illustration

Galvanic batteries: 1) Voltaic pile (1799/1800), the first electrical battery by Alessandro Volta (Italian physicist and chemist, 1745 - 1827), 2) Daniell cell (Daniell Element, 1836) by John Frederic Daniell (English chemist and physicist, 1790 - 1845), 3+4) Bunsen cell (141), a zinc-carbon primary cell by Robert Bunsen (German chemist, 1811 - 1899), 5) Meidinger cell (Meidiner Element) by Heinrich Meidinger (German physicist, 1831 - 1905), 6) Improved Meidinger cell by Krüger, 7) Leclanché cell (Leclanché Element, 1866), one of the first modern electrical batteries and the forerunner of the modern dry cell battery by Georges Leclanché (French electrical engineer, 1839 - 1882). Woodcut engraving, published in 1876.