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The Baghdad Battery dated around 200 BC which are speculated to have been used for electroplatting gold and silver jewellery. More information about these devi
by seddin 6y ago
The Baghdad Battery dated around 200 BC which are speculated to have been used for electroplatting gold and silver jewellery.
More information about these devices: http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/baghdadbatteries.htm http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/baghdadbatteries.htm
- vanderZwan 6y ago> electroplatting gold and silver jewellery. Electroplating requires a much higher voltage than whatever these batteries would have put out. Apologies for the meme-y video, but Electroboom explains the issues quite well regardless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcFOOfqfx3s&t=5m30s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcFOOfqfx3s&t=5m30s
- saneshark 6y agoA few of them in series could increase the voltage.
- vanderZwan 6y agoAlready addressed in the video - another YouTuber put ten oversized versions in a series and barely got a single LED to light up.
- unnouinceput 6y agoSo put a hundred more in series and you get bigger voltage. If 10 of them lit a LED, which needs something like 1.5V then 100 of them would give you 15V. Car batteries are 12V or 24V, depending on the car model/size, so 100 or 200 in series and you get that covered.
- himinlomax 6y agoIt's not even clear they were actually batteries. It's possible and plausible, but at the moment we have no way to confirm they were used as such, and may never do.
- master_korin 6y agoThose are not batteries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery#Controversies_over_use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery#Controversies_... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcFOOfqfx3s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcFOOfqfx3s
- CyberDildonics 6y agoThat is not only false, it has nothing to do with this story.