to the ammonium chloride, making his cell more portable. Leclanché company The Leclanché factory successfully developed until the beginning of the 20th century when it encountered the concurrence of many new producers such as the Wonder cells (founded in 1914). The enterprise changed several times of hands, was bought by the Fulmen battery company and finally by the CGE group. The name Leclanché is presently used by a company based in Yverdon in Switzerland and founded in 1909. In 2006, this company acquired the German society Bullith which became the "Leclanché Lithium GmbH", based today in Willstätt (Baden-Württemberg in Germany). Trivia Rue Georges Leclanché, a street in Paris, is named after him See also Alkaline cell, a variant of the Leclanché cell (NH4Cl replaced by KOH) Leclanché cell Leclanché company Carl Gassner, who improved the dry cell in 1888 (use of a first plaster gel) References Further reading Davis, Jack (1967). Georges-Lionel Leclanché. Electrochemical Technology, 5, 487–490. http://www.worldcat.org/title/georges-lionel-leclanch-1838-1882-essay-1966/oclc/959013114 Heise, George W., and Cahoon, N. Corey, eds. (1971). The Primary Battery, Vol. 1. New York, Wiley. Mertens, Joost (1999). The Theoretical Batteries of Georges Leclanché, Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences, 49, nr. 142 (June 1999), 75-102. External links 1839 births 1882 deaths People from Val-d'Oise École Centrale Paris alumni French electrical engineers Battery inventors People of the Industrial Revolution