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  2. Alessandro Volta - Wikipedia

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    Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (/ ˈvoʊltə, ˈvɒltə /, Italian: [alesˈsandro ˈvɔlta]; 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827) was an Italian physicist and chemist who was a pioneer of electricity and power, [1][2][3] and is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane. He invented the voltaic ...

  3. Voltaic pile - Wikipedia

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    Voltaic pile, University History Museum of the University of Pavia. The voltaic pile was the first electrical battery that could continuously provide an electric current to a circuit. [1] It was invented by Italian chemist Alessandro Volta, who published his experiments in 1799. [2]

  4. Electric battery - Wikipedia

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    Italian physicist Alessandro Volta built and described the first electrochemical battery, the voltaic pile, in 1800. [6] This was a stack of copper and zinc plates, separated by brine-soaked paper disks, that could produce a steady current for a considerable length of time. Volta did not understand that the voltage was due to chemical reactions.

  5. Life Electric - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.thelifelectric.it. Life Electric[1] (also known as The Life Electric) is a contemporary sculpture, dedicated to the physicist Alessandro Volta (1745–1827). Completed in 2015 it is located in Como, [2] Italy. Life Electric was designed by Daniel Libeskind, and was a gift to Como, the city where the architect located his “Summer ...

  6. History of the battery - Wikipedia

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    History of the battery. A voltaic pile, the first chemical battery. Batteries provided the primary source of electricity before the development of electric generators and electrical grids around the end of the 19th century. Successive improvements in battery technology facilitated major electrical advances, from early scientific studies to the ...

  7. File:ETH-BIB-Volta, Alessandro (1745-1827)-Portrait-Portr ...

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  8. History of electromagnetic theory - Wikipedia

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    Alessandro Volta. In 1800 Alessandro Volta constructed the first device to produce a large electric current, later known as the electric battery. Napoleon, informed of his works, summoned him in 1801 for a command performance of his experiments. He received many medals and decorations, including the Légion d'honneur.

  9. Galvanism - Wikipedia

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    Galvanism: electrodes touch a frog, and the legs twitch into the upward position [1] Galvanism is a term invented by the late 18th-century physicist and chemist Alessandro Volta to refer to the generation of electric current by chemical action. [2] The term also came to refer to the discoveries of its namesake, Luigi Galvani, specifically the ...