Storiascopio · Era 10 of 12 · lower secondary year 2
Volta's battery
1800 · Como and Pavia, Italy
In short
Alessandro Volta, a physicist from Como and a professor in Pavia, stacked small discs of zinc and copper one on top of the other, separated by bits of cloth soaked in salt water. From that column, called a pile because it really was a pile of discs, came a steady electric current. Volta described the invention in 1800 in a letter to the Royal Society in London. In his honour the unit of electrical voltage is called the volt.
Why it matters For the first time electricity could be had continuously, and the age of electricity began.
Source: Treccani, entry “Volta, Alessandro”
Where we are in the era “Age of revolutions”
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
1712Event 10 of 251895
Your turn
Name ______________________ Class ______ Date __________
When did it happen? Find the date at the top and write it here:
Tell it in your own words: what happened?
Draw the scene below.
storiascopio.com/en/event/volta-s-battery/ · free worksheet, you may photocopy it for your class