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Documents Level 2: Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (18 February 1745 - 5 March 1827)
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  • Author Author: patkelly
  • Date Created: 4 Aug 2011 2:47 PM Date Created
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Level 2: Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (18 February 1745 - 5 March 1827)

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Alessandro Volta was a physicist and entrepreneur, said to have created the first battery in the world: the voltaic pile. For his work discovering the proportional relationship between potential and charge, the unit of electric potential is known as the volt.

 

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Life and Work

Alessandro Volta was born in the Lombardy region of Northern Italy, in what was then the Austrian empire. Growing up in Como, he became interested in physics at an early age and by 24 had published his first article: “on the attractive force of the electric fire” despite never going to university. Volta went on to become a teacher to high school age students.
 
By 35 he was a professor of experimental physics at the University of Pavia, and was able to travel extensively before the outbreak of the Napoleonic wars. Volta became quite famous in his own lifetime having discovered methane and famously; the battery. He was also known for his electrically triggered pistol, one of his many inventions, which relied on principles that would form the basis for communications engineering.
 
Above all, the steady current flow of his battery allowed future generations of engineers and scientists to study electrochemistry and electromagnetism. Your earliest electrical experiment may well have been a lemon or potato battery, similar in many ways to the voltaic pile! In fact, Volta’s battery was invented to prove that there was no such thing as “Animal Electricity”, a concept that Galvani had landed on after discovering the battery-like effects of the leg of a dead frog between two metal connectors.
 
In 1801 another protégé of European Enlightenment, Napoleon Bonaparte made Volta a count in recognition of his discoveries, and established the Volta Prize in his honour. Enlightenment was a constant theme throughout Volta’s life, though his modern attitudes rarely found their way from his private life to the public eye. Volta retired to his estate in Como in 1819 and died in 1827.
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    Former Member over 11 years ago +1
    Very Interesting Article!
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    Former Member over 10 years ago +1
    Wow the battery made his mind hungry for more knowledge, his invention of the battery made him curious about many things!
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    Steve524 over 1 year ago

    I have spent some time at lake Como.

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    davidlockett over 6 years ago

    Amazing feat. This is a great lead for student discovery. I amazed at how the Volta Prize was awarded for the contribution.

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    spraus over 7 years ago

    I would love to see a little more information as Voltas' accomplishments in his life were not limited to the battery although that is defiantly the most well known. Some of these can include early predecessors to electromagnetism as well as preceding Edisons' early work into a light bulb when using electricity in conjunction with methane... O ya and he was the first to isolate methane.

     

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    Wow the battery made his mind hungry for more knowledge, his invention of the battery made him curious about many things!

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    He made the first battery, using zinc and copper leads, with a homemade electrolyte. It was called the Voltaic Pile.

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