Who invented the battery?

Who invented the battery?

A battery, which is actually an electric cell, is a device that produces electricity from a chemical reaction. Strictly speaking, a battery consists of two or more cells connected in series or parallel, but the term is generally used for a single cell. A cell consists of a negative electrode; an electrolyte, which conducts ions; a separator, also an ion conductor; and a positive electrode.
In 1748, Benjamin Franklin first coined the term ‘battery’ to describe an array of charged glass plates. From 1780 to 1786 Luigi Galvani demonstrated what we now understand to be the electrical basis of nerve impulses, and provided the cornerstone of research for later inventors like Alessandro Volta.
Volta invented the voltaic pile and discovered the first practical method of generating electricity in 1800. Constructed of alternating discs of zinc and copper with pieced of cardboard soaked in brine between the metals, the voltaic pile produced electrical current.
In 1836, an Englishman, John F. Daniel invented the Daniel Cell that used two electrolytes: copper sulfate and zinc sulfate. The Daniel Cell was somewhat safer and less corrosive than the Volta Cell. In 1859, a French inventor Gaston Plante developed the first practical storage lead-acid battery that could be recharged. This type of battery is primarily used in automobiles today.
Lew Urry developed the small alkaline battery in 1949. Alkaline batteries last five to eight times as long as zinc-carbon cells, their predecessors. This was not a patentable invention, since Volta and others long ago created the principles of batteries.