Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was born was born in Como, Lombardy, duchy of Milan, on 18 February 1745. His native house is still preserved in the historic center of Como ...

TO few men of science has more homage been paid than to the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. In his life-time he was received into the highest scientific circles, and the centenary of his most ...

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 ...