2/18: National Battery Day Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 10/21/2017
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Congratulations to phoenix923 for the FTF!!!!

Welcome to my Celebrate the Day series!!!. Seems as though every day celebrates something, so I thought this would be fun. I've tried to make the location, container, or cache page have some connection to the day. Wonder if you can figure it out?



Today we would be hard pressed to find someone in the United States who doesn’t derive a benefit from a battery. Even those who live “off the grid” have battery operated devices such as a flashlight, radio or watch.

A battery is used to change chemical energy into electricity by bringing the different chemicals together in a certain order. When correctly ordered the electrons will travel from one chemical to another creating an electrical current.

While manufacturing of batteries for everyday personal use has only developed in the last 50-60 years, archaeologists have found evidence of a device that may have been used to electroplate gold onto silver, much like a battery would.

In 1936, during the construction of a new railway near Baghdad, a Parthian tomb was found. Archaeologist Wilhelm Konig found a clay jar containing a copper cylinder encasing an iron rod. Konig suggested the find to be approximately 2,000 years old.

In 1748, Benjamin Franklin first coined the term “battery” to describe an array of charged glass plates.

To celebrate National Battery Day, it is a good idea to check all of your smoke alarm batteries!

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