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William Simon Jacques (born March 1969), nicknamed the "Tome Raider" by the media, is a serial book thief who has been twice convicted after stealing hundreds of rare books worth over £1 million from libraries in the UK.
May 26, 2002 · The strange crime of William Jacques has rocked the sedate world of letters. But can greed alone explain why this privileged young man stole, doctored and sold hundreds of rare books from our...
William Jacques was an inventor of electrical devices who developed a carbon battery that claimed to convert coal into electricity. Learn about his invention, its efficiency, and its critics from the Smithsonian's Fuel Cell Project.
Jul 21, 2010 · William Jacques: Britain's most prolific book thief. Wearing a tweed jacket and horned rimmed glasses, William Jacques seemed perfectly suited to the quiet surrounds of the world’s leading...
Feb 1, 2023 · William W. Jacques was an American electrical engineer and chemist who designed in 1896 a very unusual fuel cell operated on solid (coal) fuel named by him a “carbon battery”.
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William Jacques' "Coal Battery" was claimed to operate with 82% efficiency; his critics, however, showed that he neglected to consider the thermal energy of the furnace and the power consumed by the air pump.
