4th Egyptian Dynasty Electrolytics

Dear friends,
I just found these in the Neues Museum in Berlin. Possibly 4500 year-old electrolytics. If anyone knows hieroglyphics they could perhaps translate to give values, manufacturer etc.
Cyril
 

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Read books by Charles Berlitz and Erich Von Daniken...

They had a lot to say about such things, including extra terrestrial astronauts, space suits, and space craft ports in South America.

Informative, if your taste is towards such topics.
 
Read books by Charles Berlitz and Erich Von Daniken...

They had a lot to say about such things, including extra terrestrial astronauts, space suits, and space craft ports in South America.

Informative, if your taste is towards such topics.
I thought it was common knowledge that they had space-faring civilizations in South America some 12000 years ago.

Now that I look closely they could be flux capacitors.
 
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There are references in ancient Hindu texts to space flight and so on, in fact some of the bits in the Star Wars series seem copied from them.

But that is really way off topic. And elements of religion and speculation are involved....

Anyway, now with the emphasis on EVs, we are seeing a lot of battery chemistry and designs, which were unfamiliar to most people in the 1990s.
 
Well, as far as raw materials and technology, they could have easily made PIO capacitors if they had any need or use for them.

Papyrus was available, high quality oil or beeswax too and they were skilled in beating gold into incredibly thin leaf.

Copper for wires was also available and high quality weatherproof casing and insulation could be achieved by dipping capacitor body and legs in tar.

No need AT ALL for cheesy Berlitz, Däniken or "Ancient Aliens" to "explain" it.
 
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The problem with most Egyptian technology is that it seems less advanced, the newer it gets.
If batteries were developed in Egypt, you'd probably not date them that young (2500 bC).
That's aside from the question if there ever was a battery.
It is indeed interesting to wonder how they did navigate the pyramids etc, if no traces of e.g. burning wood was ever found.
 
The Great Pyramid has a corner that points to the North Pole, and so on.
And it has an opening which points towards a particular constellation.
And so on.

The soot problem is solved by adding salt or something quite common to the oil in the lamps.

Capacitor making, fine, the old tuning gangs were sheets with air gap.
Power generation, conductors, insulators?
What will the capacitor actually work on?
Where was the power?
 
They don´t need me 😉

Gold foil? check

Organic oil? check

Beeswax? check

Papyrus? .... almost ... would you accept silk? ... if so ... check

Hand beaten copper wire? (instead of drawn) ... that would be the only new one 😉

Tar isn´t held in very high esteem by itself, but if they can claim it was scratched out of Ramses´ mummy nose ... who knows?

Or at least made out of scum from the Dead Sea.