Google Doodle is celebrating the
270th birthday of battery inventor Alessandro Volta with Doodle on its homepage on Wednesday. He invented
the electric battery in 1799.
Volta published the theory in the
year 1800 after that it became the electric battery. Volta invention inspired
by the professional
competition with Luigi Galvani who believed that the frogs’ muscles
generated the electricity, Volta thought the animal tissue was only a
conductor.
Volta’s invention consist two
types of metals including copper and zinc. Volta come together with metals and
connected the two in the end of the stack who produced electric current through
the pile and proved that an animal tissue was not necessary to generate an
electric current.
As TIME
wrote back in 2007, Volta “realized metals could produce a current and
developed the first battery, or ‘voltaic pile,’ a series of copper and zinc
strips in salt water that gave off an electric current instead of static
electricity.”
Alessandro Volta was born in 1745
in the town of Como and son of a nobleman. He did job as a professor at Como’s
Royal School in 1774 after that he went to work on the development of the
'electrophorus'.
Volta retired in 1819 to his
estate in Camnago, where the Italian
Physicist died in March 5, 1827. A museum was built in Alessandro memory which
consists of his some experimental equipment.
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