If you own a flashlight, a spare TV remote, or a talking teddy bear, you’ve almost certainly learned what happens when you leave alkaline batteries installed in a device for too long. It’s not pretty.

While modern power systems in personal electronics and larger devices have been gradually moving toward rechargeable frameworks in the interest of sustainability, there's still a lot of disposable ...

__1940: __Engineer Herman Anthony of Ray-O-Vac receives a patent for the leakproof battery. His invention is about to go to war. Wisconsin businessmen founded the company in 1906 as the French Battery ...