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Uncommon card · Science
History of the battery, an Uncommon card
Batteries provided the main source of electricity before the development of electric generators and electrical grids around the end of the 19th century.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 70
- Power
- 142
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 56,000
Power 142 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Successive improvements in battery technology facilitated major electrical advances, from early scientific studies to the rise of telegraphs and telephones, eventually leading to portable computers, mobile phones, electric cars, and many other electrical devices.
- "Wet cell" batteries used open containers that held liquid electrolyte and metallic electrodes.
- Electrodes and electrolytes could be replaced when the battery was discharged.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The History of the battery article was read about 56,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 70: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get History of the battery
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, History of the battery (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : GuidoB, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
