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  2. History of the battery - Wikipedia

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    This was known as the trough battery. [4] Volta himself invented a variant that consisted of a chain of cups filled with a salt solution, linked together by metallic arcs dipped into the liquid. This was known as the Crown of Cups. These arcs were made of two different metals (e.g., zinc and copper) soldered together.

  3. Baghdad Battery - Wikipedia

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    The Baghdad Battery is the name given to a set of three artifacts which were found together: a ceramic pot, a tube of copper, and a rod of iron. It was discovered in present-day Khujut Rabu , Iraq in 1936, close to the ancient city of Ctesiphon , the capital of the Parthian (150 BC – 223 AD) and Sasanian (224–650 AD) empires, and it is ...

  4. Earth battery - Wikipedia

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    In 1898, Nathan Stubblefield [3] received U.S. patent 600,457 for his electrolytic coil battery, which was a combination of an earth battery and a solenoid. (For more information see US patents 155209, 182802, 495582, 728381, 3278335, 3288648, 4153757 and 4457988.) The Earth battery, in general, generated power for early telegraph transmissions ...

  5. History of Arda - Wikipedia

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    Tolkien meant Arda to be "our own green and solid Earth", seen here in the Baltistan mountains, "at some quite remote epoch in the past". [1]In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the history of Arda, also called the history of Middle-earth, [a] began when the Ainur entered Arda, following the creation events in the Ainulindalë and long ages of labour throughout Eä, the fictional universe.

  6. Franklin's electrostatic machine - Wikipedia

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    A similar apparatus had been created earlier by Daniel Gralath. Franklin called this device an "electrical battery", [4] but that term later came to have a different meaning, referring instead to a set of one or more galvanic cells. At that time, the word "battery" was a military term for a group of cannons. [32]

  7. What are electric car batteries made of, and why do ... - AOL

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    Since many EV batteries rely on rare-earth metals, they make up the most expensive part of the vehicle and are part of the reason why MSRPs remain high. This story was produced by Edmunds and ...

  8. Cut The Rope: Time Travel cheats and tips - The Middle Ages ...

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    Om Nom's adventures begin in The Middle Ages, so that's where we'll kick things off too. Cut The Rope: Time Travel - The Middle Ages 1-1 Cut The Rope: Time Travel - The Middle Ages 1-2

  9. The History of Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    Christopher Tolkien made the decision not to include any material related to The Hobbit in The History of Middle-earth. His reasons for this were that it had not been intended to form part of the mythology, was a children's story, and had originally not been set in Middle-earth; it was revised during the writing of The Lord of the Rings.