Miniature motor made of paper clips

8 thoughts on “Miniature motor made of paper clips”

1. krustyclown says:

   November 14th, 2006 at 2:05 am

   Oooohhh!! Love the batteries :)

2. Oracle1729 says:

   November 14th, 2006 at 8:11 pm

   I was going to post that I love the batteries…

   I also love the way they call them dry cells, even though the term is still right nobody uses it today.

3. Shadyman says:

   November 15th, 2006 at 9:20 am

   @Oracle1729: Especially have to love how people call them “batteries” now, when infact most “batteries” are actually “cells”.

   Both AA and AAA are “cells”, as in, each has one power-producing core. 9V batteries are actually 3x 3V “cells” together in one battery.

4. Oracle1729 says:

   November 15th, 2006 at 11:58 am

   Shadyman, I did think of that while I was typing my earlier message here but I let it go. Since a battery is a cluster of cells, is it wrong to call a cluster of 1 cell a battery?

   BTW, alkaline 9V batteries are 6×1.5V cells; alkaline cells are 1.5V. In modern batteries they’re almost always cylinders smaller than an AAA (AAAA cell I believe). I’ve also seen them with a single stack of rectangular cells.

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