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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Metallica

—devadutta @ 21:47

This apparatus(1) resembled something else which made 2 to give it the same name.

What did 2 call 1? who is 2?

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1 is an array of Leyden jars which look like a “Battey of cannons”. Thus Benjamin Franklin called 1 as “Battery”. The name is used even today.