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. He resisted pressure...

Alessandro Giuseppe Volta became one of the most widely recognized scientists of his time day for his work with electrical currents. Volta extended his physics work to include the electrical interactions of living organisms, and the electrical...

Alessandro Giuseppi Volta became one of the foremost celebrities of his day for his work with electrical currents. Volta was born on February 18, 1745, in Como, Lombardy, Italy. Most of his eight brothers and sisters entered the church, but Alessandro...

Alessandro Volta, now known as the inventor of the electric battery and eponym of the volt, the unit of electrical potential, was a prominent figure in late eighteenth-century science. A younger son from a family of the lesser nobility, he was born...

1745-1827 Italian Physicist It is a mark of Alessandro Volta's influence on the world of science that the international unit of electrical potential difference or force is named the volt in his honor. His development of the first battery in...

1745-1827 Italian physicist who invented the electric storage battery. Volta's electrophorus replaced the Leiden jar for generating and storing electricity and led to modern electrical condensers. He showed that the galvanic effect (first...

Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (February 18, 1745 - March 5, 1827) was an Italian physicist known especially for the development of the first known electric battery in...