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The first ever electrical battery used just copper, zinc and brine-soaked cardboard. Dan Plane shows you how to build your own.
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this was strangely entertaining and hard to stop watching
Man, I’m going to do great with my Lemon Pile/Lemonade Stand
Why does these videos get less views?
Isn't the first viable battery the Baghdad battery, similar to a leyden jar?
AFAIK using real currency for other purposes, or intentionally destroying it, is illegal.
Yet another Gold Nugget from Ri
If life gives you lemons, charge your iPhone!
I thought it was illegal to destroy currency!?
1400 views, with 171 thumbs up and 0 thumbs down.
comment edited to be removed by me. The defacing of currency is only illegal if you do it with intent to render it "unfit to be reissued".
How many volts per cell is this?