2006-07-10 09:43:47 · 13 answers · asked by tom s 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
The Oldest known battery is The Baghdad Battery. circa 250 BC.
It isn't Egyptian, That's a load of crap. It was Mesopotamian, modern day Iraq. The objects might be Parthian (between 250 BC and 224 AD) because the village where they were excavated was Parthian.
The Baghdad Battery is the common name for a number of artifacts apparently discovered in the village of Khuyut Rabbou'a (near Baghdad, Iraq) in 1936. These artifacts came to wider attention in 1938, when Wilhelm König, the German director of the National Museum of Iraq, found the objects in the museum's collections, and (in 1940, having returned to Berlin due to illness) published a paper speculating that they may have been galvanic cells, perhaps used for electroplating gold onto silver objects.
The Plant'e (pronounced Plan-tay) is credited with being the first modern battery. ( still used today ) Your car battery is a Plant'e degsign.
Modern Lead-acid batteries, invented in 1859 by French physicist Gaston Planté, are a type of galvanic cell and are the most commonly used rechargeable batteries today. They also represent the oldest design with one of the lowest energy-to-weight ratios
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery
Yours: Grumpy
2006-07-10 10:09:12 · answer #1 · answered by Grumpy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God invented batteries so that people like you can stay up all night wondering why He invented batteries
2016-03-27 00:03:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The battery was invented after somebody invented a electric torch in 1762.
2006-07-10 09:47:06 · answer #3 · answered by Mean Mr Mustard 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe they unearthed an ancient form of battery from an egyptian tomb just recently! So I would say the concept came into being a couple thousand years ago!
2006-07-10 09:48:41 · answer #4 · answered by Jimmy Pete 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A follow on to the Wiki answer...
The term battery came from Benjamin Franklin who had created a battery of jars so that he could test higher voltages of electricity.
2006-07-10 10:43:07 · answer #5 · answered by Doob_age 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1746
2006-07-10 09:48:55 · answer #6 · answered by <3 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont know the date but the ancient Egyptian invented it
2006-07-10 09:47:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 1725 by Voltaire the French scientist. Hence volt !!!!!
2006-07-12 09:45:42 · answer #8 · answered by andyoptic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the modern battery victorian age, but primitive ones keep showin up
2006-07-17 04:57:52 · answer #9 · answered by shiara_blade 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On a Thursday
2006-07-10 09:48:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋