StinkyFingerItchyBum

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Cake day: February 26th, 2025

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  • Language is funny sometimes. Battery used to refer to a collection of individual electric cells, ‘a battery of cells’ that worked together to supply the required voltage. Old cell tech was such low voltage, that several cells were required to juice itself to practical voltages for working purposes. Here the word was a mot emprunté - borrowed, from the military where battery was a term to describe a functional group of artillery that worked together for improved function. The military stole the old french term battre, ‘to beat’.

    Eventually “battery” evolved to mean electric power storage device regardless of cell construction. Now apparently it also includes thermal charging, storage and discharging, even when only a single cell.

    Language is weird. The proper term would be accumulator, but weirdness reigns supreme.