Alessandro Volta His “pile,” or battery, opened the age of electric power and settled his celebrated argument with Luigi Galvani. Curiously he then played no part in the epochal developments ...

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 Antonio Anastasio Volta was a pioneering chemist of noble birth ...