Camille Alphonse Faure (21 May 1840, Vizille – 14 September 1898) was a French chemical engineer who in 1881 significantly improved the design of the lead-acid battery, which had been invented by Gaston Planté in 1859.
Faure's improvements greatly increased the capacity of such batteries and led directly to their manufacture on an industrial scale.
[4] While there, he and the factory manager, George Trench, took out patents for tonite, a new high explosive (1874), and an improved dynamite detonator (1878).
[6] It was a significant breakthrough that led to the industrial manufacture of lead-acid batteries, now used for starting motor cars.
Towards the end of his life, Faure was granted further patents,[7] among them ones for the manufacture of aluminium alloys, improvements to hot air engines, and motor vehicle steering mechanisms.