Surely a post of our blog that we could not dedicated to Alessandro Volta, inventor of the battery!
was born in 1745. He studied first at home and then at the Jesuit school and the seminary.
His scientific work began and was held out of the long-institutional university.
His scientific work began and was held out of the long-institutional university.
In 1774 he was appointed regent of the public schools of Como and in 1775 professor of experimental physics in the gymnasium of Como.
In 1778 he was offered the chair of Experimental Physics at the University of Pavia, where he worked for nearly forty years and was elected Rector in 1785. His lectures are open to the public, held in the current "Classroom Time" were very popular, and he also greatly enhances the collection of instruments in the physics laboratory, also buy directly during his travels in Europa.Volta devoted himself with special electrostatic success: its fundamental research into the electroscope, which changed in electrometers, the electroscope capacitor and invention of the 'perpetual electrophorus ", the first electrostatic machine induction.
Most fame is linked to the invention of Volta's pile, following the dispute with Galvani on animal electricity, which occupied him from 1791. While Galvani argued that the contractions of frog's legs which he observed were caused by a "fluid nervoelettrico" just animals, Volta, starting from the same experiments and a variety ideandone then, came the claim that electricity is not "animal" is question, but simply to electricity "metal", set in motion by certain chains of metal and wires wet.
In 1800 released the realization of cell column and crown of cups.
In 1800 released the realization of cell column and crown of cups.
In 1801 in Paris he presented his research at the Academy, in the presence of Napoleon.
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