To commemorate their value, February 18 has therefore been designated International Battery Day. On this day in 1745, Italian Alessandro Volta was born, the inventor of the prototype electric battery.

His uncle, Alessandro, also attempted to persuade him to study law. However, having finished the Seminary, Volta decided to drop formal studies and he became interested in electricity. The Jesuit ...

Galvani’s contemporaries—including Benjamin Franklin, whose work helped prove the existence of atmospheric electricity—had made great strides in understanding the nature of electricity and how to ...

This is one of the earliest electric batteries ever made. It was invented by Alessandro Volta in 1799 and consists of discs of two different metals, such as copper and zinc, separated by cardboard ...

Hello, everyone! In 1799, an Italian scientist named Alessandro Volta invented electricity, and one and a half centuries later, the internet was launched! These inventions changed our world ...