February 18, 2015 03:59 pm | Updated 03:59 pm IST - New Delhi
Google has dedicated it’s doodle to Alessandro Volta’s 270th birthday.
Born in 1745 in the town of Como, the Italian physicist was known for the invention of an early form of battery in 1799. He had become a professor of physics in 1774 at Como’s Royal School before going on to work on the development of the “electrophorus”, a device that produced static electricity.
Volta was made a count in 1810 by Napoleon Bonaparte, and he retired in 1819 to his estate in Camnago, where he died in 1827.
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