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  2. 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 ...

  3. History of electricity in Iran - 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 close proximity of Ctesiphon, the capital of the Parthian (150 BC – 223 AD) and Sasanian (224–650 AD) empires, and it is believed to date from either of these periods. [4]

  4. Talk:Baghdad Battery - Wikipedia

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    5 Battery diagram. 10 comments. Toggle the table of contents. Talk: Baghdad Battery. ... This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Baghdad Battery article.

  5. Out-of-place artifact - Wikipedia

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    The three components of the Baghdad Battery. Baghdad Battery: A ceramic vase, a copper tube, and an iron rod made in Parthian or Sassanid Persia, discovered in 1936.Fringe theorists have hypothesized that it may have been used as a galvanic cell for electroplating, though no electroplated artifacts from this era have been found.

  6. Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World - Wikipedia

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    This includes the Baghdad Battery, where German scientist Arne Eggebrecht is shown electroplating a small silver statue with a gold cyanide solution and a replica of the battery using grape juice. There are also segments on the Antikythera Mechanism (including an interview with Derek J. de Solla Price ), the Stone Balls of Costa Rica and the so ...

  7. California’s evacuees agonized over when to leave and what to ...

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    A vintage green-leather Rolex watch case. An Alekos Fassianos painting. A hard drive and albums with family photos. Phone chargers and laptops. Medications and passports, of course. Some clothes ...

  8. Pope reveals he was target of suicide bomb attempt during ...

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    Pope Francis has revealed he was the target of an attempted suicide bombing during his visit to Iraq three years ago, the first by a Catholic pontiff to the country and probably the riskiest ...

  9. Wilhelm König - Wikipedia

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    A painter by profession, in 1931, König was elected assistant to the German leader of the Baghdad Antiquity Administration with the title of a "Direktor". At the excavation of a Parthian settlement in modern day Khujut Rabu (near Baghdad, Iraq), he discovered the alleged Baghdad Battery.