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The Zamboni pile (also referred to as a Duluc Dry Pile) is an early electric battery, invented by Giuseppe Zamboni in 1812.
A Zamboni pile is an "electrostatic battery" and is constructed from discs of silver foil, zinc foil, and paper. Alternatively, discs of "silver paper" (paper with a thin layer of zinc on one side) gilded on one side or silver paper smeared with manganese oxide and honey might be used. Discs of approximately 20 mm diameter are assembled in stacks, which may be several thousand discs thick, and then either compressed in a glass tube with end caps or stacked between three glass rods with wooden end plates and insulated by dipping in molten sulfur or pitch.
Zamboni piles of more modern construction were manufactured as recently as the 1980s for providing the accelerating voltage for image intensifier tubes, particularly in military use. Today such voltages are obtained from transistorised inverter circuits powered by conventional (low-voltage) batteries.
The EMF per element is approximately 0.8 volts; with thousands of stacked elements, Zamboni piles have output potential differences in the kilovolt range, but current output in the nanoampere range. The famous Oxford Electric Bell, which has been ringing continuously since 1840, is thought to be powered by a pair of Zamboni piles.
An intersting electrostatic device that is extra-ordinarily easy to make
Zamboni pile The Zamboni pile (also referred to as a Duluc Dry Pile) is an early electric battery, invented by Giuseppe Zamboni in 1812.A Zamboni pile is an "electrostatic battery" and is constructed from discs of silver foil, zinc foil, and paper. =======Image-Copyright-Info======= Image is in public domain Author-Info: Xosema Image Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pila_de_Zamboni.jpg =======Image-Copyright-Info======== -Video is targeted to blind users Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA image source in video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNWxzT9xuGs
This is my own reproduction Zamboni Device. I used Manganese dioxide and zinc to make the battery. This is my first crude attempt. It has already been running for 6 months. I think that it will keep going for many decades. It is a reproduction of the Oxford Electric bell. There are about 4500 cells in the battery. It puts out about 400 volts.
"The Torsional Twister" This is a bigger and more powerful Zamboni Battery device. It needs more batteries which I am in the process of making. I plan to have 4 batteries powering the device. It is a reproduction of the batteries made by Zamboni in the early 1800's. If I made them correctly, they will power this small metal flag for an incredibly long time. The Oxford Electric Bell which uses the same type of batteries has been working for 177 years. The batteries charge the terminals. When the flag hits one side, it becomes positive. Because like charges repel, it is driven to the other terminal. When it touches the other terminal, it becomes negative and the cycle repeats.
My latest creation. It uses 4 of my Zamboni type batteries . This form uses a nice display case to show off it's design. The batteries are sitting on a piece of Plexiglass and are powering the torsional oscillation. Each battery is made up of about 900 individual batteries stacked to direct all power toward the Stainless steel terminals. The jumper cables are used to gather the power of all 4 batteries together. If my design is as good as the original, it should continue its torsional oscillation for a couple of hundred years, maybe many centuries longer as my design should not "rot". The batteries are made from zinc and manganese dioxide. My first one has been in constant motion for over a year, so I am encouraged.
A prototype Duluc/Zamboni dry pile made using copier paper pasted to cooking Aluminium foil on one side and painted with Manganese Dioxide paste on the other. Gum Arabic was used as the binder for both the Aluminium and Manganese Dioxide treatments. The sheets were cut into 25 mm squares and 400 of them stacked up in a acrylic box held together with nylon screws. The output is via small squares of double side (shorted together) FR4 PCB material touching some M3 stainless steel hardware.
This Zamboni battery is making 5,3V and 152uA (short circuit). The battery has to be kept wet with tap-water. It's my goal to make a Zamboni battery that can drive a Mendocino for years without wearing out by oxidation. I be leave that with nano-technologie a 1000x or more better battery must be possible. I hope that someone in this field will work on the Zamboni battery and free someday the world from the energy problem. I be leave... no, i know this is possible. I'm trying to improve this device and hope others will join me. More to come... 30-01-2012: the Zamboni battery is doing worse! Some individual cells produce only 0.2V I dont know way this is happening (yet). I broke the 5,3V cell down to individual cells, and found that they were "glued" together as: zinc/paper/copper. I had...
Oxford Bell replica. Zinc and Manganese Dioxide Zamboni dry pile at about 1300 volts. I estimate the ball vibrates at 12Hz. Hand made tiger maple base. Teflon insulators. Nickel plated brass fittings. Hand made data plate. Hopefully I can make an update about once a year. 2015 Update: Potential is about 500v, and still running strong. 2016 Update: Potential is 710v, and running strong.
Giuseppe Zamboni was a scientist from my school, who invented the dry-type-battery. A technician from my school showed us how to mount one and use it. "A summer place" is the soundtrack. VIDEO IN ITALIAN!
Built my own version of the Oxford Bell Experiment with a bunch of watch batteries!
Some discussion about using a high impedance voltmeter and capacitive voltage division electrometer to optimise the cell chemistry of future dry piles.
Please Subscribe our goal is 5000 subscriber for this year :) Prior to the rise of electrical generators and electrical power grids from around the end of the 19th century, batteries were the main source of electricity. Successive improvements in battery technology permitted the rise of major electrical advances, from early scientific studies to the rise of telegraphs and telephones, leading eventually to portable computers, mobile phones, electric cars and multitudes of other electrical devices. Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_battery
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