Without any research, please build a battery right now.
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Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
How do people in this day and age not know how electricity works? That’s like grade 3 science…
meliaesc@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
Sure, spare change, coin roll, vinegar.
MBech@feddit.dk 12 hours ago
Most people tend to forget stuff that isn’t important to them in their daily lives.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Well, most people here are American.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Go back to a time where material quality and manufacturing processes couldn’t produce consistent quality and quantity of things needed to build a basic generator.
Where will you get the permanent magnet, for instance? What will you demonstrate once you’ve assembled a basic generator? Going to make a light bulb? How about a voltage regulator? Think about the manufacturing processes involved in that, like pulling a vacuum for the bulb? I mean, it’s one thing to know that spinning a magnet in a coil of wire makes electricity, it’s an entirely different thing to actually build such a thing correctly and to convince ancient peoples to even help you and not kill you for witchcraft or something.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
Well, a simple thing to do once you have a coil and magnet is to hook it up to another coil.and magnet some distance away. You can then transfer the spinning action. Something simple to set up would be a fan.
As for not killing me for witchcraft, plenty of folks want to kill me now for much more tangible reasons, so there really isn’t much to gain here.
absentbird@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Copper and lodestone were some of the first materials refined from ores. You can also create a permanent magnet by getting a piece of iron struck by lightning.
Once you have copper and a magnet you can use the electricity to make additional magnets out of iron.
It’s also possible to make a magnet with a compass, a piece of iron, and a striking hammer:
position the metal facing north, strike the southern end repeatedly