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.

This is one of the earliest electric batteries ever made. It was invented by Alessandro Volta in ... This particular battery was given by Volta to Michael Faraday when he and Humphry Davy visited ...

The name, Alessandro Volta, came from the eighteenth century Italian inventor of the electric battery. Alessandro Giuseppe ...