ALESSANDRO VOLTA LIFE

• Born: February 18, 1745
• Died: March 5, 1827,
• Full name: Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta
• Awards: Copley Medal
• born in Como, Italy ;(((died also Como, Italy

IDEAS HE DID

• Was the first person to isolate methan
• Discovered methane mixed with air could be exploded using an electric spark.
• Discovered “contact electricity” resulting from contact between different metals.
• Recognized two types of electric conduction.
• The battery made by Volta is credited as the first electrochemical cell

As a child, he did not display much intelligence and did not start speaking until he was 4 years old. By the time he turned seven, he not only reached at par with other children but also overtook them in astutenes

Religious beliefs

I do not understand how anyone can doubt the sincerity and constancy of my attachment to the religion which I profess, the Roman, Catholic and Apostolic religion in which I was born and brought up, and of which I have always made confession, externally and internally... I have, indeed, and only too often, failed in the performance of those good works which are the mark of a Catholic Christian, and I have been guilty of many sins: but through the special mercy of God I have never, as far as I know, wavered in my faith. In this faith I recognise a pure gift of God, a supernatural grace ; but I have not neglected those human means which confirm belief, and overthrow the doubts which at times arise. I studied attentively the grounds and basis of religion, the works of apologists and assailants, the reasons for and against, and I can say that the result of such study is to clothe religion with such a degree of probability, even for the merely natural reason, that every spirit unperverted by sin and passion, every naturally noble spirit must love and accept it. May this confession which has been asked from me and which I willingly give, written and subscribed by my own hand, with authority to show it to whomsoever you will, for I am not ashamed of the Gospel, may it produce some good fruit.

EDUCATION

Alessandro Volta lived around the late 17-1800's the education was not required or expected of men. Although Volta was a professor of experimental physics at the University of Pavia for 25 years, I assume he had the equivalent of a college education.

VOLTA'S FAMILY

• His sons names was
• Giovanni,Zanino,Flaminio
• His spouse name was
• Flaminio

VOLTA'S FRIENDS

• Luigi Galvani was one of Volta's he discovered the voltaic pile

PROBLEMS THAT ALESSANDRO OVERCAME

• The family was well connected and appeared to be happy even if rather poor
• When he was a child he did not talk a lot but now he discovered many things