Apparently others don’t think this is as cool as I do. Posted on Twitter and not a single reaction. Here’s what I said…
“I found this old AA battery (probably from the 1960s) in some old electronic device. Very surprised at no sign of leakage and my meter showed it had 1.43V. My dad worked at Southern Bell before being renamed to BellSouth and later merged with AT&T.”
That old electronic device is a Zenith Royal 125 Transistor (6) radio (1961). I didn’t realize at the time that the radio took 2 AA batteries. So maybe it would have worked if I added a AA battery. I put 2 new AA alkaline batteries in it and it still works. It looks like this…
I might add it’s hard for me to leave a battery in a device more than a few months today without it leaking.