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Alessandro Volta was born in Como, Lombardy, Italy and he lived with his parents Flippo and Maddalena.
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this is a timeline of Alssandro Volta
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He began to study electricity and published his own two books of ideas.
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He was appointed director of the royal school in coma. The following year before he knew it he became the professor of physics.
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While visiting local swamps, Volta disscoverd a mystery gas known back then swamp gas. The gas was used to light gas lanterns. He was the first person to disscover swamp gas.
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Volta became a well known scientific person, he was appointed to professor of physics at the university of pavia a position he held for forty years thats a long time.
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Volta thought that frogs legs twitched because the solution in the leg made a connection between the two metals. He demonstrated by using a coin and some foil all placed on the tongue.
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Volta demonstated that the combantion of different metals and solutions could produce an electric current. Volta develop his first eletric battery.
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Volta retired to his home in Coma.
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He died and the name volt was based on his name Volta.
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Alessandro volta couldn't speak till his was four years of age.
By the time he was fourteen however he decided he wanted to become a physicist.
He thought he could make electricity out of animals what he called animal electricity.
Volta told people about his finding of electicity to Sir Joseph Banks at the royal society in London.
He also told the french academy of science.
