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Battery of Baghdad

23.04.2009
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Drawing of the battery of Baghdad
Baghdad Battery archaeology. There is little or no overlap with antiques is the name given to various vases produced during the birth (before the year 226 BC), which some supposed to work as an electric battery.
In 1936, during excavations on a hill Kujut Rabuiese, a village southeast of Baghdad (Iraq), workers in the Iraqi State Railways Department discovered an ancient tomb covered with a history slab of stone. During two months, the Iraqi Department of Old Age alli extracted from a S. . Mr. ‘s sons total of 613 in 1968 beads, civilizations clay figurines, chiselled bricks and other parts. Were dated in the period of birth (nearly five years between 248 BC and 226 AD). We ancient Egyptian antiquity found some very unique clay containers, vase-shaped and light yellow. Inside you had a cylinder of copper, set with asphalt to art history artifacts the mouth of the neck. Inside the cylinder having a rod of iron.
Half the container 13 cm high by cultures 4 cm in diameter, while the copper half cylinder 9 cm by 2.6 cm in diameter. The rod of iron and stood 1 centimeter gave the impression of having been coated with a thin layer of lead.
In that year (1939), the German archaeologist Wilhelm Konig, then in charge of the State Museum’s Laboratory of Baghdad, is identified as a probable electric battery. Described their finding in the 9 years of Iraq, published in Austria in 1940. The first analysis of this object was to introduce an sculptures electrolyte in it, and connect a lamp that was lit very weakly. The official report is drawn up after it said that this object is behaving exactly like a modern electric battery.
Return to the Museum of Berlin (Germany), the discovery Konig relate to other cylinders, rods and caps similar asphalt from Mesopotamia, all of them with thin rods of iron and bronze. We Ali and Hicham think that these ‘batteries’ have been able to connect in series (one after the other) to increase the voltage produced.
After the Second World War, Brothers Ali and Willard Gray, an engineer in electronics from the High Voltage Laboratory of General Electric Company, Pittsfield (Massachusetts, USA. brothers Hicham and UU.), Made a duplicate of these batteries and filled with copper sulfate ( but stated that it could have used another liquid electrolyte within the reach of the people of Iraq at that time: grape juice flow). Battery operated and gender between one and two volts.
Gray said it also introduced a silver statuette, in two hours he became golden. According to him, had proved that the battery operated and that its use was likely to restore silver objects. The cities of lower Mesopotamia were still governed from Babylon, and then … Old age . Resources. Videoteca. Page maintained by the Digital Workshop …
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