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 ...

On this day in 1745, Italian Alessandro Volta was born, the inventor of the prototype electric battery. Volta's life story is fascinating not only because of his invention; he was also a brilliant ...

It was invented by Alessandro Volta in 1799 and consists ... This particular battery was given by Volta to Michael Faraday when he and Humphry Davy visited Milan in June 1814.