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This is the first written positive identification of the fuel cell effect.

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Bossel, U. (2024). Birth of the Fuel Cell. In: Fuel Cells. Synthesis Lectures on Engineering, Science, and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44539-2_1

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