As we all know the battery is a wonderful thing. Your laptop, your ipod, even you controller for your xbox. But do you know the history behind the battery? It all starts around 250 B.C.-224 A.D.
The ancient Baghdad battery was created (for a graphic of the battery see left) mallinia before Alessandro Volta created the more popularly known battery. Archeologists sort of just recentally (the year 1936) discovered this. Completely intact (as you can see from the picture to the left) scientists still are amased in how people created it so long ago and how they made it so durable as to be in perfect condition ( exept for coroded wires which they couldn't help) for two mallinia.
