MEET THE BATTERY THAT HAS LASTED FOR 176 YEARS, AND SHOWS NO SIGNS OF RUNNING 

Most of us would be hard-pressed to get through an entire day without charging our smartphone’s battery at least once. And while some promising engineering developments might make that situation a little better, a full charge would still be on the order of days. Some batteries, like the one in the Oxford Electric Bell, can last a little longer. Like, a few decades shy of two centuries.

As explained by Sally Le Page on Tom Scott’s fantastic YouTube channel, the battery was created in 1825, just 25 years after the modern battery was invented in 1800. Since then, it has been ping-ponging between its two bells for 176 years and shows no sign of stopping.