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Alessandro Volta
Volta is credited with inventing the electric battery (left) and the electrophorus....
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Alessandro Volta: wet pile
Illustration from “On the Electricity Excited by the Mere Contact of Conducting Substances...
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Alessandro Volta illustrated by Louis Figuier, 1870
Volta with his electric pile, or wet battery.
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Alessandro Volta, 1801
Alessandro Volta demonstrating his battery's generation of electric current before...
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Volta, detail of a bronze bust
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