Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (February 18, 1745 - March 5, 1827) was an Italian physicist known especially for the development of the electric battery in 1800. Wikipedia
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Alessandro Volta was born in Como in northern Italy in 1745. He was the son of a nobleman but the family had little money. After leaving school he had to find work and took the job of superintendent of schools in Como. He suggested that pupils should b www.longman.co.uk/tt_secsci/resources/scimon/sept_00/sci_...
Count Volta was born in 1745 at Como, Italy. He was educated in public schools and in 1774, he became professor of Physics at the Royal School in Como. ... Encyclopedia article about Count Alessandro Volta. Information about Count Alessandro Volta in www.dogpile.com/dogpile/ws/results/Web/Count%20Alessandro...
Born in Como, Italy, into a noble family, Count Volta was a physicist and pioneer in the study of electricity. "Volt," named after Count Volta, is a measurement of electricity. Count Volta also made discoveries in electrostatics, meteorology and pneumat www.energyquest.ca.gov/scientists/volta.html
Volta also discovered (and isolated) the highly flammable methane gas, CH 4 (in 1778). He had earlier invented the electrophorus, a device that generated static electricty charges (in 1775). Volta was born in Como, Italy, and was a professor of physics www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/page/v/volta.shtml
A century and a half after Galileo's death, something of scientific importance was to develop in Italy. Volta, a former high school physics teacher, found that it was the presence of two dissimilar metals, not the frog leg, that was critical. In 1800, a www.corrosion-doctors.org/Biographies/VoltaBio.htm
Alessandro Volta , Italian physicist, known for his pioneering work in electricity. Volta was born in Como and educated in the public schools there. By 1800 he had developed the so-called voltaic pile, a forerunner of the electric battery, which produce www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/volta.htm
