Electricity is easy to make though… a couple magnets and some copper wire.
they’d probably have non-shitty copper by then, but magnets? thems witchcraft
And don’t forget that you need to demonstrate that it’s producing a current. Just get a light bulb, right??
Probably easier to use a lemon and copper plates. Not sure what you’d connect to it though
You can literally mine lodestone and copper. Ancient people have mined those two things since antiquity. Where do you think it comes from now? Fairies?
You can induce voltage on more than just copper you know. Or maybe you don’t know. You probably don’t know.
Ever wonder why it goes bronze age and then iron age? It’s because it’s a minor miracle humanity discovered how to smelt iron. Iron requires temperatures higher than you can achieve with just wood. Iron absorbs carbon and sulfur making it worthless (in the wrong mixtures).
The process is complex and resource intensive.
Assuming a bronze age civilization, copper or tin is the best you can hope for. Finding a magnet is going to be difficult because there’s not really ferromagnetic materials available. In the modern era the most common material is iron.
Me: The opposite of B, the opposite of B, plus or minus a square root…
Them: What does that mean?
Me: I have no idea.
I’d actually be able to teach them how to make it if they have copper and magnets, since I know how to make a simple generator. They’d be SOL on how to use it though, because I don’t know how to make something entirely from raw materials that would require electricity. Which means they also wouldn’t know I am creating it with the generator… 🤔 Uh… Shit.
This is actually kinda wild to think about and I hadn’t considered it before. Making electricity is easy! Using it is actually more complicated.
Making an “ouch” device or basic heater is something I could do.
Even a battery I could make a simple alumium air battery cell. Or lemon battery. But I’d be viewed like a sorcerer asking for foreign ingredients like salt, aluminum, copper and zinc.
Depends on how far back and where you went. Whoever made the Baghdad Battery probably wouldn’t even be impressed.
I swear the Americans remove another letter from the word aluminium every time I look away
Aluminum would be nearly impossible to obtain, it’s actually my preferred grab in a hypothetical “You’re going back in time and can take one thing” situation
You could give people a mild shock. “Here. Hold these while I crank this thingy.” Could be good for some lulz. Or get you burned as a witch.
I mean, the Baghdad Battery’s pretty old. We’ve had electricity for a while, just nobody knew what it was or how to use it. Just like us now.
Baghdad Battery? Probably not a battery:
Awful Archaeology Ep. 6: The Baghdad Battery by Miniminuteman
Baghdad Battery 2 - non-electric boogaloo also by Miniminuteman
Joe Rogan had a good line back before he became… whatever he is now. Anyways, the line is “if I dropped you off on a deserted island, how long before you could send me an email?”
