Saturday, 18 February 2017

Nine Scrappy Spools



Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was born on this day in Italy in 1745. A physicist, chemist and pioneer of electrical science, he’s best known as the inventor of the electric battery. Using his invention, scientists were able to produce a steady flow of electric current for the first time, opening the door to many more discoveries. Volta was the first person to isolate methane. He learned the gas mixed with air could be exploded using an electrical spark: the basis of the internal combustion engine. He found electricity could result from contact between different metals. In recognition of Volta’s work, we call a unit of electric potential a volt. It’s difficult to imagine a world without his contributions. He’s credited with saying, “You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong.” Of course, he probably said it in Italian.

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