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Alessandro VOLTA
1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)



...Probably the most important developments in the science of electricity started with the invention of the first battery in 1800 by Alessandro Volta. This battery gave the world its first continuous, reliable source of electric current and led to all the important discoveries of the use of electricity.


Tucson Daily Citizen
Tucson, Arizona
March 18, 1960

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