I'd never heard of this "Baghdad battery" ... apparently the ancient Iraqis might have discovered primitive electroplating.
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It was the Parthians (the guys who invented the "parting shot")... besides this primitive likely-battery, fine gold-coated silver jewelry has been found from the era
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now if only someone had discovered a primitive motor, you could have hooked up this ancient battery to the antikythera mechanism and had a robot astrologer
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Have you already heard about the idea that the Ark of the Covenant may have been a capacitor?
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