{"id":43,"date":"2023-02-14T18:06:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T18:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/italian-american.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2023-02-23T22:10:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T22:10:55","slug":"alessandro-volta-italian-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/italian-american.com\/alessandro-volta-italian-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Alessandro Volta and The Electromotive Force"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was born on February 18, 1745, in Como, Lombardy, to a noble family that had lost some of its social status. Unlike his siblings, young Alessandro did not enter the religious life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a child, he did not show signs of being a prodigy, and his family thought he was developmentally delayed until the age of seven. At fourteen, he decided to become a physicist and became fascinated with electricity, writing a Latin poem on the subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volta’s inventions and discoveries include the electrophorous, a charge-accumulating machine, and his most significant achievement, the invention of the electric battery in 1800. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
His work with the electric current and the discovery of methane helped to establish him as a renowned physicist. Volta was also a professor of physics in the Como high school and at the University of Pavia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1778, Volta was the first to isolate the compound methane, a major constituent of natural gas. Further, in 1779, he received a professorial appointment at the University of Pavia, where he continued his work with electricity. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n