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- On February 18, 1745, Alessandro Volta was born in Como, Lombardy, Italy.
- Despite being a nobility, his family wasn’t particularly affluent.
- He didn’t begin to talk until he was four years old, which caused his family to worry that he might not be particularly intellectual or even dumb.
- Alessandro Volta was an electrical science pioneer as well as a physicist and chemist.
- He is most well-known for developing the electric battery.
- He invented the first electric battery in 1800, known at the time as the “voltaic pile.”
- His creation enabled researchers to create constant electric current flows for the first time, sparking a flurry of fresh discoveries and innovations.
- Methane was initially isolated by Alessandro Volta.
- The internal combustion engine’s fundamental discovery—that methane and air might be ignited by an electric spark—was made by Alessandro Volta.
- He discovered “contact electricity,” which is produced when certain metals come in touch.