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Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (UK: / ˈ v ɒ l t ə /, US: / ˈ v oʊ l t ə /; Italian: [alesˈsandro ˈvɔlta]; 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827) was an Italian chemist and physicist who was a pioneer of electricity and power, [1] [2] [3] and is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane.
Alessandro Volta's theory of contact tension considered that the emf, which drives the electric current through a circuit containing a voltaic cell, occurs at the contact between the two metals. Volta did not consider the electrolyte, which was typically brine in his experiments, to be significant.
In 1885, at the age of 21, Yai invented a continuous electric clock powered by wet-cell batteries. Electrically-powered clocks already existed, but they had conventional spring-powered clockwork movements, with electricity used to wind up the spring, while Yai's was a breakthrough, powered directly by a battery he had made. [2]
In 1842, Grove developed the first fuel cell (which he called the gas voltaic battery), which produced electrical energy by combining hydrogen and oxygen, and described it using his correlation theory. [3] In developing the cell and showing that steam could be disassociated into oxygen and hydrogen, and the process reversed, he was the first ...
Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented the battery. 1804: Thomas Young: Wave theory of light, Vision and color theory: 1808: Atomic theory by John Dalton: 1816: English inventor Francis Ronalds built the first working electric telegraph. 1820: Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted accidentally discovered that an electric field creates a ...
Dry cell battery by Wilhelm Hellesen 1890. Many experimenters tried to immobilize the electrolyte of an electrochemical cell to make it more convenient to use. The Zamboni pile of 1812 is a high-voltage dry battery but capable of delivering only minute currents. Various experiments were made with cellulose, sawdust, spun glass, asbestos fibers ...
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Ovshinsky was born and grew up in the industrial town of Akron, Ohio, then at the center of the American rubber industry.The elder son of working-class Lithuanian Jewish immigrant parents who left Eastern Europe around 1905—Benjamin Ovshinsky from Lithuania and Bertha Munitz from what is now Belarus—Ovshinsky became active in social activities at an early age during the Great Depression. [7]