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Greek Innovation (Score:2)
Nothing became of it because the Romans used it in toys, and they couldn't imagine any other uses for electric charges. Perhaps they hadn't seen enough of the fundemental work on electricity at that point in history...
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The earliest known battery has turned up in Iraq, actually, the so-called Baghdad battery. [smith.edu]
If the history of technology is of interest, I recommend Ancient Inventions [amazon.com]. Fascinating stuff about the Antikythera mechanism [giant.net.au], and other, well, ancient inventions. The claim that the ancients used electricity as toys is wrong, incidentally: for example electroplating was a known technology, also the use of lightning rods is ancient knowledge.
The attitude of "eraism" is quite prevalent, meaning that "the ancients
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