No invention attracted and frightened humanity as much as electricity, and one of its earlier fathers, the Italian Alessandro Volta — whose invention of the electric battery in 1800 marked a turning ...

Volta realised that it was the liquid in the frog's leg which was important rather than the frog itself. He replaced it with paper soaked in brine and got the same effect. This particular battery ...

But it was Italian inventor Alessandro Volta (1745–1827 ... Left: An illustration of Gaston Plante's original lead-acid battery. Right: The Leclanché cell, a precursor to the invention of ...

In the age of iPhones, MacBooks and Teslas, battery-powered devices aren't just the future — they are our lives. But with ...