Building a Baghdad battery

Luke Iseman makes stuff, some of which works. He invites you to drive a bike for a living (dirtnailpedicab.com), stop killing your garden (growerbot.com), and live in an off-grid shipping container (boxouse.com).

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November 27th, 2008 2

Here’s an Instructable on building primitive batteries, interesting not so much for its (low-current, low-voltage) results but as a nice overview of a different way of making batteries. Also check out this Wikipedia entry on earth batteries, which I found via this Instructable.

2 thoughts on “Building a Baghdad battery”

bryan steopher says:

December 19th, 2011 at 3:55 am

The first battery circuit provides a relatively higher voltage than the second and so it can therefore be used to power devices that need ‘higher voltages’ but low currents. http://www.whatisall.com/mysteries-unusual/what-is-baghdad-battery.html