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  1. Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (/ ˈ v oʊ l t ə, ˈ v ɒ l t ə /, Italian: [alesˈsandro ˈvɔlta]; 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827) was an Italian physicist and chemist who was a pioneer of electricity and power and is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane.

  2. Jun 12, 2024 · Alessandro Volta (born February 18, 1745, Como, Lombardy [Italy]—died March 5, 1827, Como) was an Italian physicist whose invention of the electric battery provided the first source of continuous current. Volta became professor of physics at the Royal School of Como in 1774.

  3. Alessandro Volta was a physicist, chemist and a pioneer of electrical science. He is most famous for his invention of the electric battery. In brief he: • Invented the first electric battery – which people then called the “voltaic pile” – in 1800.

  4. Jun 27, 2018 · The Italian physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) invented the electric battery, or "voltaic pile," thus providing for the first time a sustained source of current electricity. Alessandro Volta was born on Feb. 18, 1745, in Como.

  5. lemelson.mit.edu › resources › alessandro-voltaAlessandro Volta | Lemelson

    Alessandro Volta. Electric Battery. Energy and Environment. Italian physicist Alessandro Volta made a number of discoveries in the late 18th and early 19th century critical to the then all-new and growing field of electricity.

  6. Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was an Italian physicist and chemist who was a pioneer of electricity and power and is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane.

  7. Feb 18, 2015 · In 1801, Volta demonstrated his battery for the French leader and promptly earned a nice gold medal, was declared a count, and became a senator for the Kingdom of Lombardy.

  8. Feb 18, 2018 · Alessandro Volta dismantled the myth of animal electricity when he invented the battery which already amazed Napoleon Bonaparte at the time.

  9. Alessandro Volta was an Italian scientist whose skepticism of Luigi Galvani's theory of animal electricity led him to propose that an electrical current is generated by contact between different metals.

  10. Apr 3, 2023 · Regarded as one of the greatest scientists of his time, Alessandro Volta’s two major contributions to the history of electro-technology were the voltaic cell and his own name. Volta publicly demonstrated the voltaic pile, later known as the battery, in 1799.

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