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Baghdad Battery

In 1936 workers excavating ruins of a 2,000-year-old village near Baghdad chanced upon a very mysterious object. This was a small earthenware vase, which had a soldered sheet-copper tube inside.  This copper tube was four inches long and about one inch wide with an iron rod projected through a plugmade of asphalt at the top. A German archaeologist, who was living in Iraq came to a startling conclusion about this could serve as an electric battery.

In 1940 Willard F. M. Gray from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, read Konig’s theory and decided to make a replica of this so called Baghdad battery.  When he put a copper sulphate solution into his replica it generated roughly half a volt of electricity.

In the 1970’s a West German Egyptologist decided to replicate this experiment, but by using pressed grape juice, as he believed the ancients would have used something similar to this.  He then used the electricity generated by this replica to electroplate a statuette made from silver with gold.

 

 

 

Sources and Credits:
Author: Robert Worrall
Times Newspapers.
Unexplained Magazine.
Feats and Wisdoms of the Ancients - Library of Unusual and Curious Facts - Time Life Books.