Alessandro Volt The Invention Of The Battery

Alessandro Volta was an Italian Physicist Chemist, and a pioneer of electricity and power. He was the person who invented the battery. His invention impacted our lives because we wouldn’t be able to do the things we can today using batteries from remote controls to medical equipment.
Alessandro Volta was born in Como Italy on February 18, 1745, and he died in Como Italy on March 5, 1827 (Tretkoff, 2006, para.2). His real name was Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta. Until he was 4 years old he showed no signs of talking, his family feared that he was not intelligent or possibly even dumb (The doc, 2014, para.10). When Alessandro was 7 his father died leaving unpaid debts. When he was a kid he attended the Como Jesuit School and a

Some examples of batteries are zinc carbon, alkaline, button batteries, lead-acid, nickel-cadmium, nickel-metal-hydride, and lithium-ion. The three main types of batteries are zinc primary and secondary batteries. Even though batteries can be made with all sorts of different chemical electrolytes and electrodes, there is only primary and secondary, which are the two main types. Primary batteries are ordinary, disposable ones that can’t normally be recharged (Woodford, 2017, para.18). Secondary batteries can be recharged, sometimes hundreds of times (Woodford, 2017, para.18). The first rechargeable battery was made in 1859 by the French physicist Gaston Plate created a battery using two rolled sheets of lead submerged in sulfuric acid (Hymel, n.d., para.10). You can recharge them by sending a current in the opposite direction it normally flows in. When you charge your cell phone battery you are just running the battery in reverse. Alessandro Volta created the voltaic pile which was a stack of alternating zinc and silver disks, separated by brine-soaked cloth. The pile consisted as many as 30 disks. In imitation of the electric organ from a torpedo fish. It worked by connecting a wire to both ends of the pile, a steady current will flow. Volta found out that if he used different types of metals it could change the amount of current that is produced, and that he could increase the current by adding disks to the stack. In a letter dated March 20, 1800 which was addressed to joseph Banks, Volta first reported the electric pile. An advantage to them are the ease of manufacture and good mechanical stability. The cylindrical cell has good cycling ability, offers a long calendar life and is economical (“Types of Battery Cells”,2017). Cylindrical cells are heavy and have a low packaging density due to space cavities. Typical applications are