Electrochemical storage technologies are essential to modern life, fueling everything from smartphones to sustainable transportation. Yet, the roots of this technology extend deep into antiquity, far ...

When is a battery not a battery? When it's a Baghdad battery. Some "weird history" authors and armchair archaeologists have claimed that a group of artifacts discovered in 1938 were ancient "batteries ...

Fourteen cm in height and eight around, the world’s first battery looked more like primitive pre-Columbian art than an amazing piece of ancient technology. Although most experts agree that the device ...

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 ...

Mainstream consensus holds that Benjamin Franklin first tinkered a rudimentary battery into existence in 1749, followed by Italian physicist Alessandro Volta in 1800 with his voltaic pile, but there ...

Inspired by a millennia-old blueprint and two of the most abundant scrap metals in the US, scientists have developed a battery prototype that could one day offer a cheap and accessible way to store ...

We got quite a few tips in about a paper from Vanderbilt about a cool scrap metal battery they’ve been playing with. They made some pretty bold claims and when we fed the numbers in they pretty much ...