Volta, AlessandroVolta, pronounced VAHL tah or pronounced VOHL tuh, Alessandro (1745-1827), won fame as the inventor of the voltaic pile, an early type of electric battery. He made several discoveries in electrostatics, meteorology, and pneumatics. He invented an electrical device called an electrophore, a forerunner of the capacitor. The volt, a unit of electrical measurement, is named for him (seeContributor: Ronald R. Kline, Ph.D., Assistant Prof. of History of Technology, Cornell Univ. Master Index
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