Saturday, 18 January 2014

Alessandro Volta

Bio:- 
  • Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was an Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s
  • He worked with Luigi Galvani on the bio-electrical phenomenon and realized that the frog legs were acting as both conductors and detectors of electricity. 
  • He replaced the frog legs with brine-soaked paper and detected the flow of electricity and thus discovered the electro-chemical series and the law that the electromotive force (emf) of a galvanic cell, consisting of a pair of metal electrodes separated by electrolyte, is the difference between their two electrode potentials. 
  • After this, he invented the voltaic pile, an early electric battery, which produced a steady electric current.
Birth:-
  • 18 February 1745
  • Como, Duchy of Milan
Death:-
  • 5 March 1827 (aged 82)
  • Como, Lombardy-Venetia


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