Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #13199
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Timothy Flytch" beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 16:17:48 PDT
Subject: Re: WCRG?....first electric cell
The best theory I've seen says they were used for gold plating...
>Go back a bit further for the first electric cell...Egyptians made cells
>contained in large clay jugs over 5000 years earlier than your Italian
>fella, although the use of these cells is still a point of contention.
>Hard
>to tell what uses they had for an electric cell. Given the size (up to
>three feet tall), I don't think they had BEAM in mind.
>
>ZB
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