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Introduction• Count Alessandro Volta was born in Como, Italy, into a noble family. The
Italian physicist Alessandro Volta was the inventor of the voltaic pile, the
first electric battery. In 1775 he invented the electrophorus, a device that,
once electrically charged by having been rubbed, could transfer charge to
other objects. Between 1776 and 1778, Volta discovered and isolated
methane gas.
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Early Life• Alessandro Volta was born in Como, Lombardy, Italy, on February 18,
1745. His family was part of the nobility, but not wealthy. Until the age of
four, he showed no signs of talking, and his family feared he was not very
intelligent or possibly dumb. Fortunately, their fears were misplaced.
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Education• The young Alessandro was educated at home by his uncle until
he was twelve years old. He then started studies at a Jesuit
boarding school. The Jesuit school charged no fees, but
pressurized him to become a priest. His family did not want this,
and withdrew him from the school after four years. Volta then
studied at the Benzi Seminary until reaching age.
• Volta’s family wanted him to become a lawyer. Volta had his
own ideas! He was interested in the world around him; he
wanted to be a scientist.
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Although as a child he had been slow to speak Italian, Volta nowseemed to have a special talent for languages. Before he left
school, he had learned Latin, French, English, and German. His
language talents helped him in later life when he traveled with the
aim of discussing his work with scientists in Europe’s centers of
science.
Aged 18, Volta was bold enough to begin an exchange of letters
about electricity with two leading physicists: Jean-Antoine Nollet
in Paris, and Giambatista Beccaria in Turin. Beccaria did not like
some of Volta’s ideas and encouraged him to learn more by doing
experiments.
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Invention of the Electric Battery• Volta did not set out to invent the battery. His experiments
in this area were actually performed to show the claims of
another scientist were wrong. That scientist was another
Italian, Luigi Galvani.
• Galvani was a professor of anatomy. In the late 1780s he
noticed that a spark of static electricity carried by a metal
scalpel touching the nerves of a dead frog while the legs lay
on metal caused the legs to move.
• In 1817, this inspired Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein.
• In 1791, Galvani announced his discovery of animal
electricity.
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Great invention of his life• After the theories put forward by Luigi Galvani and contrasted by
Alessandro Volta , the scientific world clashed. Some defended the first,
others cheered the second. Faced with these controversies , Alessandro
Volta would design his battery in mid-1779. With this invention humanity
took a turn in the area of physics.
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Volta’s Battery Unleashes a Wave of NewScientific Discoveries
• The battery Volta invented gave chemists a very powerful
new method to study substances.
• Volta’s battery produced a steady source of electric current
for the first time ever. All electrical devices depend on
electric current. Without Volta’s invention, there could be no
modern technology. Volta’s battery was an absolutely crucial
invention in the development of our technology based
civilization.
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Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and thevoltaic pile
• Alessandro Volta 's discovery spread like wildfire
throughout the world. She was the pioneer in the
studies of electricity on the planet and its inventor, the
most admired man of the time. In 1802, the
scientist traveled to France, responding to a call made
by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte .
• Arriving at the French National Institute of Sciences,
he was personally received by the emperor. When the
emperor met him, he became a great admirer of Volta.
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Recognition for Alessandro Volta• Adding to the gold mention for scientific merit, conferred by the
members of the Royal Society of London, Alessandro Volta was the
object of multiple recognitions. These came from different countries
and organizations dedicated to science. The great prestige of him was
concentrated in Europe. Napoleon Bonaparte followed him closely,
having personally witnessed the achievements and experiments of that
Italian genius. For this reason, he granted him an economic allowance
in 1805 that would be paid annually.
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Honors• In honor of his work in the field of electricity, Napoleon made him a count in 1810; in 1815
the emperor of Austria named him a professor of philosophy at Padova. Volta is buried in the
city of Como in ltaly; the near Lake Como is a museum devoted to explaining his work. In
1881 an important electrical unit, the volt, was named in his honor. Volta Crater on the Moon
is also named after him.