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 from his family to enter the priesthood and developed instead an intense curiosity about natural phenomena, in particular, electricity. In 1769 he published his first paper on electricity. It contained no new discoveries but is of some interest as the most speculative of all Volta's papers, his subsequent ones being devoted almost exclusively to the presentation of specific experimental discoveries.
Biography Alessandro Volta was born to a well-known family in Como in Northern Italy. Despite Volt’s family’s nobility, due to his father’s inability to hold on to money, Volta grew up in moderate poverty. Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (alesˈsandro ˈvɔlta; 18 Februari 1745 – 5 Mac 1827) merupakan seorang ahli fizik, ahli kimia dari Itali yang dianggap sebagai seorang perintis elektrik dan kuasa atas kejayaan beliau mencipta bateri elektrik dan menemukan gas metana.Beliau mencipta cerucuk Volta pada tahun 1799 serta melaporkan hasil eksperimennya pada 1800 melalui sepucuk.
Early Investigations and Inventions
In 1774 Volta was appointed professor of physics at the gymnasium in Como, and that same year he made his first important contribution to the science of electricity, the invention of the electrophorus, a device which provided a source of electric potential utilizing the principle of electrostatic induction. Unlike earlier...