Evolution Of Batteries

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Batteries have been around for a very long time. It is thought that the very first type of battery may have been made by the Parthians around 250 B.C. They lived in Baghdad and made a clay jar with vinegar and a copper cylinder inside with a iron rod sticking out. Batteries have definitely changed since then. In the 1800 an Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented the voltaic pile, which was made of zinc and copper plates with vinegar with leather or pasteboard between each plate. The plates were stacked on top of each other. The bottom and top plate acted as the positive and negative terminals. This was the first time that scientists were able to create a flow of electricity that they could actually control. “A year after Volta