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Alessandro volta
Alessandro Volta was born on the 18 of feb. He was born in Como which is in Italy. -
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta was the first perosn to invent a battery. -
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Alessandro Volta [battery maker]
Alessandro Volta invented the frist battery maker. -
Alesandro Volta
ALESSANDRO VOLTA (BATTERY MAKER) -
Alessandro Volta
In 1769 he wrote a treatise “On the forces of attraction of electric fire,” in which he put forward a theory of electric phenomena. -
Alessandro Volta
In 1774 he became professor of physics at the Royal School in Como -
Alessandro Volta
In 1776-77 he applied himself to chemistry, studying atmospheric electricity and creating experiments such as the ignition of gases by an electric spark in a closed vessel. -
Alessandro Volta
Volta was made a professor of physics at the University of Pavia in 1778. -
Alessandro Volta
Volta thought that frogs legs twitched because the solution in the leg made a connection between the two metals. He demonstrated by using a coin and some foil all placed on the tongue. -
Alessondro Volta
By 1800 he had developed the so-called voltaic pile, a forerunner of the electric battery, which produced a steady stream of electricity. -
Alessandro Volta
In 1819 he finally retired to private life in his country house in Camnago, -
Alessandro Volta
He died at his home in Camnago.