Supposedly the Egyptians did know how to make a simple battery. Mythbusters reproduced the battery and it produced around 4 volts. It only takes 1.5 volts to produce hydrogen gas from water via electrolysis. It’s technically within the scientific capability of the Egyptians to do this, although I don’t think it likely.
Supposedly the Egyptians did know how to make a simple battery. Mythbusters reproduced the battery and it produced around 4 volts. It only takes 1.5 volts to produce hydrogen gas from water via electrolysis. It’s technically within the scientific capability of the Egyptians to do this, although I don’t think it likely.
It was not Egyptian and almost certainly not a battery.
Milo Rossi has covered this in detail in a very good video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRZR_TeVi5Y
He also has a follow-up to that video with an expert on the subject, an actual archaeologist who has studied the so-called battery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19mhccQ3nVA
It’s capable of being used as a battery. Doesn’t mean it was.