Batteries are a part of our everyday life, and power everything from phones to gaming handhelds to laptops, but do those ...

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 ...

For the word to change, things got chemical. [Alessandro Volta] introduces his voltaic pile. Once scientists latched onto the idea of a stable reaction giving a steady stream of magic pixies for ...

His 1799 voltaic pile consisted of copper and zinc discs separated by brine-soaked cloth. It was the first battery that could provide a small but steady current to a circuit. Reconstruction of the ...