A battery and a door Bell?

[ginbart]

Thanks you two for the help. He's now working on the picture.

 

[EweSheep]

Hubby is trying to install a doorbell on an officer's wall tent at a Civil War reenactment.

I don't think they ever had electric doorbells. Just the pulley kind.

 

[Davaroo]

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Hmmmm, batteries were not unknown during the middle 1800's. They were primitive by today's standards, naturally. But it may surprise you to know that the concept goes all the way back to the ancient Persians, who actually had crude, but working, models.
A form of electroplating was known to have been practiced by them.

And the Leiden(Leyden) jar was in use 100 years before the American War of Secession. It is also a fact that the first electrical doorbell was invented by Joseph Henry in 1831. Granted, such things weren't in wide usage but their properties were known. One might even consider them "cutting edge" for the time.

so, it is remotely possible that some clever civilian engineer, once in the Army as an officer, brought the idea to his battle front lodgings. It's a stretch, admittedly. But stranger things have happened.

As for re-enactors, well... they are all about authenticity. I wouldn't include the electric doorbell in a re-enactment camp unless I could document it's usage from the period.

 

[EweSheep]

LOL! That is very informative information. I do not know what they had back in those days but I have to share it with hubby LOL!


It is a practical joke hubby wanted to play on his brother in law..... ding-a-ling! And get so far to pester him with the doorbell to make him hurry up faster to report! Yeah, he is slow as molasses in some mornings, not even a bugle call from the distance could wake him. He impersonate General Burnsides LOL!

 

[silkiechicken]

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Just power the door bell with a voltaic pile. LOL

 

[EweSheep]

 

[un-named]

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CHICKEN MINDS....... I was wondering at first glance what battery hens have to do with doorbells!