HellBent Report This Comment Date: September 18, 2006 09:09PM
* Baghdad Battery, 250 BCE*
The Baghdad Battery is believed to be about 2000 years old (from the Parthian
period, roughly 250 BCE to CE 250). The jar was found in Khujut Rabu just
outside Baghdad and is composed of a clay jar with a stopper made of asphalt.
Sticking through the asphalt is an iron rod surrounded by a copper cylinder.
When filled with vinegar - orany other electrolytic solution - the jar produces
about 1.1 volts.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 18, 2006 09:43PM
BS!
mrkim Report This Comment Date: September 18, 2006 10:54PM
Looks waaaay too well made for that era, particularly the copper and iron
pieces. No Sale here :>/
90130_ Report This Comment Date: September 18, 2006 11:44PM
No, not bullshit. Many things in this world defy explanation, and this is one
of them. I've read articles on this object and it is feasible that this is
indeed an electrolytic battery. So, with that, here's another strange and
unexplanable object that predates modern technology and materials by thousands
of years;
[
www.world-mysteries.com]
festus Report This Comment Date: September 19, 2006 12:02AM
I do believe Baghdad very well could have produced
a crude battery,however to me this copper in this
picture looks like it has the tick marks on it from
a band saw.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: September 19, 2006 12:20AM
Maybe because it was cut in half with a band-saw?
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 19, 2006 12:23AM
its half a battery,cut in 1/2 in modern times with a modern bandsaw to show the
interior!!
madmex2000 Report This Comment Date: September 19, 2006 12:37AM
Well the republican morons dont believe because they dont read enuff books
,there fukn idiots. That battery is well documented by the smithsonian
institute. nice pic,theres even evidence of batterrrys in Romes time as well.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: September 19, 2006 01:19AM
It's, "they don't read *enough* books, *they're* *fucking* idiots."
Apparenly you don't read enough either.
Turning a historical science discussion into a political debate, now that's
fucking moronic.
And yes people, the battery is real.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 19, 2006 01:26AM
They probably had to invent the battery in order to power the bandsaw.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 19, 2006 01:51AM
The question is what did they DO with the battery? I doubt they had 1.1 volt
light bulbs. Touch their tongue to the contacts like with a modern 9 volt
battery? (try it) Heck I can jab a copper knife and a silver knife into a
grapefruit and produce some voltage purely by accident. Did a grey whos UFO
crashed use it to power a tiny circuit board?
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: September 19, 2006 02:24AM
Anonymous@94109 - You can do the same thing with a potato. They most likely
used it for electroplating. Look it up.
90130_ Report This Comment Date: September 19, 2006 03:10AM
I would agree with Blah's assertion that this was used for electroplating
metals. I'd say it would be short sighted and extremely arrogant for us to
assume that we have all the answers for everything in this world. Truth is, even
with all of our modern technology, we cannot even come close to duplicating some
of the most impressive ancient wonders...the Great Pyramids come to mind. What
the ancients knew is both incredible and profoundly vexing.
90130_ Report This Comment Date: September 19, 2006 03:22AM
Ok, ok...I got it. The object pictured above is actually "The Holy Hand
Grenade of Antioch" Monty Python quotes will soon follow.
mrkim Report This Comment Date: September 19, 2006 03:31AM
Ah well, been wrong before so no cherry lost here. Thanks for the insight
:>
Nigel_Knowitall Report This Comment Date: September 19, 2006 04:31AM
Well it is obviously time for me to make my voice heard again.
Yes, it is a battery. It was used for electro-plating jewelry etc. The old folks
could do those things as well as brazing and mining rock and build buildings
that are still used today. An example of the latter; there is a road bridge in
France that is still used all the time today. It is only one lane, so it is
regulated by traffic lights, but it can be used by anyone except heavy goods
vehicles.
Do not be so arrogant as to think that modern man has all the answers and
everything was darkness before. Another example; when Colubus sailed to the West
Indies, he used Chinese charts to find his way, check out www.1421.tv
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: September 19, 2006 05:57AM
mrkim ~ I thought I finally had me a cherry! Damn!
shaDEz Report This Comment Date: September 19, 2006 08:01AM
lol
yeah i saw this on the history channel a few months back they have no way to
tell if this is actaully a battery
wouldn't surprise me too much if it actually was used as a battery though, they
have found something in a greek shipwreck that appears to be a computer...and
some roman dude inventer a steam engine, just was never used for the same
purpose we used ours for in the nineteenth
shaDEz Report This Comment Date: September 19, 2006 08:03AM
ahhh nvm about the greek computer, didn't notice the link 90130_ posted there
mrkim Report This Comment Date: September 19, 2006 11:00AM
Better luck next time BlahX3 ;>
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 19, 2006 12:07PM
"Truth is, even with all of our modern technology, we cannot even come
close to duplicating some of the most impressive ancient wonders...the Great
Pyramids come to mind." Pure baloney. Tell us why we couldn't duplicate
the Pyramids with our modern technology? (Aside from lack of funds for something
like that)
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: September 19, 2006 04:01PM
Anonymous@13834 ~ "Pure baloney"? Aren't those mutually exclusive
terms?
I agree with you, though. The wonders of the ancient world to me are not so much
what they did but that we still can't be sure exactly how they did them. To be
certain you had to be there I suppose. The human brain has been pretty big for a
long, long time, so it shouldn't come as such a big surprise to us that the
ancients figured out all kinds of brainiac stuff way back when.
90130_ Report This Comment Date: September 19, 2006 04:40PM
Yeah, maybe we could cobble up a replica of the Great Pyramid, but how about
doing it with the same materials and the same precision the ancients did with
crude hand tools? My guess is that the whole idea would be shelved anyway
because labor unions would be involved.
90130_ Report This Comment Date: September 20, 2006 12:22AM
Well, here's as good an information source as any on this; [
en.wikipedia.org]
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: September 20, 2006 07:52AM
Wasn't Bagdad/Iraq formerly known as Mesopotamia; Modern day Iran was known as
Persia until 1935.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: September 20, 2006 04:15PM
Mesopotamia is the region now occupied by Iraq, Syria and southeastern Turkey.
HellBent Report This Comment Date: September 21, 2006 03:36AM
Ah yes, the "Fertile Crescent"... the area between the Tigris and
Euphrates rivers. An area that is often cited as the beginnings of the last
10,000 years of human development. The so-called "Cradle of
Civilization". I shit you not. The area in which Baghdad lies developed
early agriculture as people began to live in larger enclaves and developed
politics beyond 'my stick is bigger'.
Now this area is being bombed and irradiated to ruin by the soi-disant
"Pinnacle of Civilization".. the UKUSA conglomerate run by CEO Dick
Cheney.
How fucking sad.
They give us civilization, we give them bombs.
Beautiful irony.
The end of history indeed.
festus Report This Comment Date: September 22, 2006 04:30AM
Don't be so blue buddy.
It's just a new chapter in history in which the
scourge of the planet is erased and we start anew.
