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Saturday, January 12, 2008

New Profile: The Volt Man

Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta -- AKA plain ol' Alessandro Volta -- is our newest profile.

Volta is the feisty Italian who invented the battery (more or less) and gave us the electrical term volt. Volta did the job using some truly old-school equipment, including the charmingly-named electric-phlogopneumatic pistol.

He also had a cracking series of arguments with Giuseppi Galvani over electricity in frogs.

Here's the complete profile.

Posted by Mr. Holznagel at 11:39 AM