Allessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio count Volta

The first electric battery was invented by the Italian scientist Allessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio count Volta, who built a simple battery which was called a Voltaic pile in 1800. The volt a standard measure of electric force comes from his name.

Volta was born in ‘como’ a beautiful city in Italy in a poor family. He could study with the help of his relatives who were in high post in the church. Volta was appointed a teacher in a high school after his education. While he was in high school he invented the electrophoresis a device to generate static electricity. He was invited to establish physics department in Pavia University. There he had the opportunity to conduct experiments. He studied how Galvani, an Italian anatomist. Pioneered is the study of the relationship between living organisms and electricity. Galvani had discovered that a muscale could be made to contract even without subjecting it to electric charge. This he had named animal electricity. Volta didn’t believe it. He made his own experiments and sent a report to the Royal society. This was named Volta pile.