Alessandro Volta

(1745-1827)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Volta, Alessandro, 1745-1827 LBT ID: AlVolta1827 VIAF ID: 9950567 LOC ID: n80149535	B/BAP: 1745-02-18 DIED: 1827-03-05
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Professor of physics at the Royal School in Como; he invented the electric cell in 1800.
REFERENCES TO Alessandro Volta: Lady Morgan to Lady Olivia Clarke, 26 June 1819 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 1 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter VII