To commemorate their value, February 18 has therefore been designated International Battery Day. On this day in 1745, Italian Alessandro Volta was born, the inventor of the prototype electric battery.

This is one of the earliest electric batteries ever made. It was invented by Alessandro Volta in ... This particular battery was given by Volta to Michael Faraday when he and Humphry Davy visited ...

But it was Italian inventor Alessandro Volta (1745–1827) who created the first electric battery after studying these animals. His 1799 voltaic pile consisted of copper and zinc discs separated ...

The name, Alessandro Volta, came from the eighteenth century Italian inventor of the electric battery. Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was a pioneering chemist of noble birth ...