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Batteries

Patented: History of Inventions

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The first battery was created by Alessandro Volter around the turn of the 19th century. Scientists were obsessed with nature and wanted to solve one of its great mysteries. Tim Jorgensen, author of Spark, talks about how humans harnessed electricity for the first time. Dallas Campbell: We don't know where or when exactly humans let their very first fire.

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