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Message #13209
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: CORBIT GIBERSON aethelwulf@home.com
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 21:08:46 -0400
Subject: Re: WCRG?....first electric cell
>
> It is believed that they were used for pain relief and to relax muscles.
> These pots had the positive surrounding the negative (or vice versa) and
> when rubbed on the sore area the oiled skin would bridge the gap tween
> the two. Not really pain relief-- more like zap it till it's numb.
> Way of topic and I should probably shut up now. Just something I read
> somewhere.
> Corbit
> Zane Bryan wrote:
> >
> > 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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