August 2008: The links have been updated. We acquired a model of United Technologies' 4.8MW KOH fuel cell for their New York demonstration plant in the early 1980s. John O'Sullivan donated the object and a variety of graphics pertaining to that project, and MC Power's 250KW molten carbonate fuel cell power plant of 1994.
September 2007: The links have been updated. Our most recent acquisition is a desktop fuel cell demonstration belonging to the late Ronald Leonard who worked on fuel cells at Allis-Chalmers in the early 1960s. Leona Leonard donated the object, along with notes and several photographs of her husband in the lab.
December
2004: Aside from the addition of this updates page, several
changes have been made on the Fuel Cell History Project website.
We have discontinued the Future section since trade journals
and special interest websites can do a better job of presenting
current events. This allows us to focus more on our strength:
presenting the past. Several of the Future images have been
moved to the PEM section.
We have expanded the "Origins" section to two
pages, reflecting additional reaserch. The Origins:
1840-1890 section discusses Grove's discovery and early
attemps to place the device in the framework of emerging
scientific theories. The section Origins:
1880-1965 briefly describes some of the fuel cell designs
of that period.
Additional books and articles have been added to the Sources
page, and the links have been updated. This is not an all-inclusive
listing of fuel cell links, but rather a list of pages that
provide information about some aspect of fuel cell history.
