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The Jar That Might Have Been a Battery
In the 1930s, a German archaeologist in Baghdad described an ancient clay jar containing a copper tube and an iron rod. Fill it with vinegar, he suggested, and it would make electricity. Was it a two-thousand-year-old battery? Most archaeologists think not.
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The Jar That Might Have Been a Battery
In the 1930s, a German archaeologist in Baghdad described an ancient clay jar containing a copper tube and an iron rod. Fill it with vinegar, he suggested, and it would make electricity. Was it a two-thousand-year-old battery? Most archaeologists think not.
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