Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was a pioneering chemist of noble birth, and he was one of the earliest to experiment with static electricity and also discovered methane. For his work ...

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.

It was invented by Alessandro Volta in 1799 and consists of discs of ... Faraday followed up this work and went on to alter Davy's ideas about the relationship between electricity and chemistry.