(1745-1827)
The Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was born on February 18, 1745 in the city of Como, Lombardy (now Italy). Contrary to expectations, young Alessandro did not follow his ecclesiastical career.
As a young man, he did not prove to be a prodigy, he only started talking at the age of four and his family believed that he had mental problems. It reached the level of insight for children taken as normal at the age of seven at the time of the death of their father and thereafter began to progress intellectually.
At age fourteen, he decided that he would be a physicist, and at this age he was fascinated by the phenomena of electricity.
In 1775 he invented the "electrophorous", a machine that accumulates charges. Alessandro Volta then became known for his invention and for the result.
In 1779, he received a teaching position at the University of Pavia, where he continued his research and his work on electricity. He invented other devices involving static electricity and received the Copley Medal of the Royal Society, where he was appointed a member in 1791.
Its main achievement was not in static electricity but in dynamic electricity, more precisely in relation to the electric current. After the experiences of Galvani, a friend of yours and copies of articles on the subject, Alessandro Volta asked the question about the result that would have to put two different metals in counted with a same muscle.
In 1794, he decided to mount a device where two different metals were found, without the contact of any type of fabric. As a result of his work, he obtained information that there was an electric current flowing between the two metals.
Deepening the research, in 1800 Alessandro Volta proved his thesis by constructing a device that would produce a continuous flow of electricity. This device was called the "electric battery" or "electric battery", the first in history. This invention led Alessandro to recognition in the scientific world. He was called to France by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1801 for a "performance" of his inventions. He received medals and decorations, including the Honor of the Legion and in 1810 was senator of the kingdom of Lombardy.
However, the greatest honor that Alessandro Volta received was from his friends and fellow scientists, when defining the unity of electromotive force.
This unit is called Volt.
