Alessandro Volta was a physicist, chemist and a pioneer of electrical science. He is most famous for his invention of the electric battery. In brief he:
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• Invented the first electric battery – which people then called the “voltaic pile” – in 1800. Using his invention, scientists were able to produce steady flows of electric current for the first time, unleashing a wave of new discoveries and technologies. Was the first person to isolate methane. he Discovered methane mixed with air could be exploded using an electric spark: this is the basis of the internal combustion engine. Discovered “contact electricity” resulting from contact between different metals. Recognized two types of electric conduction.Wrote the first electromotive series. This showed, from highest to lowest, the voltages that different metals can produce in a battery. (We now talk of standard electrode potentials, meaning roughly the same thing.)
• Discovered that electric potential in a capacitor is directly proportional to electric charge.
Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2015
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