Baghdad battery

Baghdad battery


No it is not made in China..it is made in Baghdad ;)
The story goes like this:
In 1936, while excavating ruins of a 2000-year-old village near Baghdad, workers discovered mysterious small vase. A 6-inch-high pot of bright yellow clay dating back two millenniacontained a cylinder of sheet-copper 5 inches by 1.5 inches. The edge of the copper cylinder was soldered with a 60-40 lead-tin alloy comparable to today's solder. The bottom of the cylinder was capped with a crimped-in copper disk and sealed with bitumen or asphalt. Another insulating layer of asphalt sealed the top and also held in place an iron rod suspended into the center of the copper cylinder. The rod showed evidence of having been corroded with an acidic agent. They found mode than one..
Here is the picture:

Many people tried to reconstruct it..and you guess it..it worked..
Seems like they knew how to make a battery..

But we know that Alessandro Volta made an electrochemical cell in 1800..this was discovered in 1936...no connetions..but only a mistery
It is mostly connected with this Egyptian wall drawing:

Priest

ionised fumes

electric discharge (snake)

Lamp socket (Lotos)

Cable (Lotos stem)

Air god

Isolator (Djed-Pillar)

Light bringer Thot with knifes

Symbol for "current"

Inverse polarity (Haarpolarität +)

Energy storage (electrostatic Generator?)

Maybe they were more advanced then us..or somebody was teaching them...
If you want to know something else about this topic..e-mail me...or google it ;))

See you next time ;)