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With this invention, Volta proved that electricity could be generated chemically and debunked the prevalent theory that electricity was generated solely by living beings.
Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist whose invention of the electric battery in 1800 provided the first source of continuous current. The volt, a unit of the electromotive force that drives current, was named in his honor in 1881. Learn more about Volta’s life and accomplishments in this article.
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Volta was born and educated in Como, Lombardy, in Italy. He did not speak until the age of four and appeared to be mentally backward, but by seven he was at the level of the other children and soon began to overtake the others.
Volta unveiled on , through a letter to the president of the Royal Society of London, the first-ever electric pile. He built the device in an effort to show that generating electrical current did not require any animal tissue.