Baghdad Battery
Baghdad Battery: The ancient Baghdad Battery is an intriguing artefact housed in the Baghdad museum and is believed to be 2000 years old as discussed in Weird History at Violations. The, German Egyptologist, Arne Eggebrecht, built a replica of the Baghdad battery and filled it with freshly pressed grape juice, as he speculated the ancients might have done. The replica generated 0.87V and he was able to use the current from the battery to electroplate a silver statuette with gold proving that electric batteries were used some 1,800 years before their modern invention by Alessandro Volta in 1799. Read more ..... TAGS: Baghdad Battery, Ancient Baghdad Battery, Baghdad Museum, Intriguing Artefact, Artefact, Baghdad
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