The electrolyzer, the technology that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen using electricity, the principal route to producing hydrogen as an energy carrier. Belongs here: technology whose function is manufacturing hydrogen. Does not belong here: the fuel cell, which reverses the process to generate electricity from hydrogen, grouped under Electrochemical Converter.
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In 1800, Alessandro Volta invented the voltaic pile, while a few weeks later English scientists William Nicholson and Anthony Carlisle used it to electrolyse water.
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