Sunday 25 January 2015

This Battery Has Lasted 175 Years and No One Knows How

This Battery Has Lasted 175 Years and No One Knows How


There sits, in the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford University, a bell that has been ringing, nonstop, for at least 175 years. It's powered by a single battery that was installed in 1840. Researchers would love to know what the battery is made of, but they are afraid that opening the bell would ruin an experiment to see how long it will last. The bell’s clapper oscillates back and forth constantly and quickly, ​meaning the Oxford Electric Bell, as it’s called...

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