Turn the vegetables into a source of energy. Learn the story of the potato clock

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Among the many inventions that are invented one by one, the invention of the potato clock was invented in 1983 by William A. Borst, which is one of the strangest innovations ever, with details.

Potato Clock

According to the site "whoinventedit", the motive for this smart tool was just to try to help Borst to his wife's daughter in a scientific project, where some physics experiments are remembered in high school when a battery was created by inserting two decades of metal into a potato, Borest repeated that experiment with the addition of an electrically operated device that could operate on a small charge of energy that a potato battery would produce.

Borst settled on the digital clock, but realized that it would take more than the capacity of a single potato battery. To amplify the charge to the clock, he decided to connect more than a potato and was able to operate a digital clock by pulling electricity from two potatoes.

Potato Clock

The invention was acquired by a technology company that manufactured and distributed the watch. The innovation included two potato chips with screws, two short-length copper wires and three wires.