As early as 1789, Jan Rudolf de Man and Adrian Pais van Truswijk produced electricity with an electrostatic device and used gold electrodes to electrolyze water from a Leyden bottle into gas. In 1800, Alessandro Volta invented the voltaic cell, which would be used a few weeks later by William Nixon and Anthony Carlyle to electrolyze water. After Gramm invented the direct current generator in 1869, water electrolysis gradually attracted attention as an inexpensive method of producing hydrogen.
Which scientist discovered oxygen and hydrogen using the electrolysis of water?
Introduction Which scientist discovered oxygen and hydrogen by electrolyzing water? In 1789, Yang Rudolf de Man and Adrian Pais van Truswijk used electrostatic devices to generate electricity.