Website review: Smith College Museum of Ancient Inv...
Bunty discovered this in Ancient History
•139 reviews since Apr 13, 2003
ancient-history, battery, science
•smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/batte...
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jamienae rated 37 months ago- Man, that's awesome.
- ctesias rated 43 months ago
- Is this generally accepted? I would thing you'd see Parthian materials with plating, but I don't think any's been found.
- lilhoboette rated 43 months ago
- From the page: "The Baghdad Battery is believed to be about 2000 years old (from the Parthian period, roughly 250 BCE to CE 250)."
- Spacegypsy rated 44 months ago
- An ancient battery hmm... what would 1.1 volts power?
- othium rated 46 months ago
- But will it fit in my PDA? Yea, thought not.
- Shade-in-Alaska rated 47 months ago
- three thousand year old battery. kind of puts the energizer bunny to shame, really.
- Paragonx rated 47 months ago
- Reminds me of the Antikythera mechanism.
- boprey1 rated 47 months ago
- a battery from 250bc the mind boggles
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