Batteries

Life without this:

There would be no portable electrical power, leaving electrically powered machines and devices static and non-mobile. Energy could not be carried in stored, portable form from one location to another.

Problems solved:

Portability of electric powered devices.

Inventor: Alessandro Volta

Year Invented: 1800

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