electric battery instead of gunpowder

let say Taoist monk in china discover copper-zinc electric battery in 900 AD
Taoist monks think electricity is life elixir

what are effects on science if electric battery was available in 900 AD instead of 1800 AD.electric telegraph is still 3 centuries away

.by 1000 AD scientists have discovered Electrolytic processes and eletrco-metallurgy and electric motors and electromagnetic theory of 1835 otl

copper-zinc battery isn't more difficult than gunpowder
 
Well, first, a battery is a relatively complex device to 'discover,' without any of the iterative steps in the field. I wouldn't say impossible, but definitely more difficult than gunpowder, partially because there's not as much reason to build something like that.

With that said, I'd contend that someone developing a battery in the 10th century would not result in an early 19th century understanding of electricity and its potentials (maybe early 18th century, at best) around the same time. When you comment on the idea of a telegraph being developed around the 13th century, that sounds much more plausible than list of developments for the 11th century in your post.
 
they are plausible ancient electric battery as in Baghdad battery of copper-iron battery.

if electric battery was discovered in 900 AD than electric science will achieve 1835 otl level in 1200 AD
 
But does anything really change or does the battery enter the realm of some of the more esoteric experiments usually associated with alchemists? I can see a scenario where the battery remains a poorly understood novelty until long after this early invention.
 
they are plausible ancient electric battery as in Baghdad battery of copper-iron battery.

if electric battery was discovered in 900 AD than electric science will achieve 1835 otl level in 1200 AD

The idea of the Baghdad battery is far from consensus. It may well be proven to be correct at some point in the future, but don't take it as evidence that it is easy for a society with no real understanding of electricmegnetics to build a battery.

Further, you have no way of knowing for sure what would happen. Its not unreasonable to get to an early 19th century understanding of electricity after 300 years of study, but its far from certain that that technology would be pursued and, further, would be spread. As atested by the myriad of Chinese technologies that withered on the vine.
 

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Indeed, a technology's developpement depends largely on the culture in which it appears. The roman steam engine technology is another good example of a tech that could have been improved upon with great benefits but did not due to political, philosophical and economical reasons (political in the sense no one in charge ever tried to have it deployed, philosophical in the sense of lack of interest in this kind of research beyond some individuals such as Heron of Alexandria, economical with the structure of the workforce, with so many unskilled slaves being availlable and thus making the interest of massive technological advances dubious (although we see some interest such as with the large water mill near Arles)
 
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