The Unbroken Code: Part 5: The Baghdad Battery: Decoding the Electrochemical Riddle
4V Potential output voltage The Unbroken Code: Ancient Materials That Defy Time 1 The Unbroken Code: Ancient Materials That Defy Time - Part 1: Self-Healing Concrete and the Secret of Roman Immortality 2 The Unbroken Code: Part 2: The Delhi Iron Pillar and the Chemistry of Rust-Proof Iron 3 The Unbroken Code: Part 3: Stained Glass: Medieval Chemistry Turning Light into Narrative 4 The Unbroken Code: Part 4: Greek Fire: The Lost Chemical Weapon That Saved an Empire 5 The Unbroken Code: Part 5: The Baghdad Battery: Decoding the Electrochemical Riddle ← Series Home The Terracotta Pot That Sparked an Anachronistic Debate The discovery in 1936 near Baghdad of a terracotta pot, roughly six inches (140 millimeters) tall, containing a copper cylinder and an iron rod sealed with asphalt, immediately sparked a profound anachronistic debate,. Wilhelm König, an assistant at the National Museum of Iraq, theorized that this 2,000-year-old artifact, potentially dating to the Parthian or Sassanid dynasty, was a primitive galvanic cell,. This “Baghdad Battery” became famous for the startling possibility that an ancient civilization had achieved an empirical understanding of electrochemistry,. ...