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    2. A handwritten annotation to the tract, in the hand of Archivist Magister Alessandro Volta, 1795:


    3. Some were very small, such as Upper Volta, Gabon, or Benin


    4. But at that time another learned man, Volta, experimented in his own way, and proved to everybody that Galvani was mistaken


    5. The frogs moved only when Volta touched them with an iron wire that was connected with a copper wire


    6. After Volta they tried to increase electricity by pouring all kinds of liquids—water and acids—between the metals


    7. I am confident, that if Volta and the other investigators of Galvanism, instead of multiplying the pairs of Galvanic plates, had sought to increase the effect by enlarging one pair as I have done, (for I consider the copper and zinc surfaces as reduced to two by the connexion) the apparatus would have been considered as presenting a new mode of evolving heat, as a primary effect independently of electrical influence


    8. Volta, considering the changes consequent to his contrivance as the effect of a movement in the electric fluid, called the process electro-motion, and the plates producing it electro-motors


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    Synonyms for "volta"

    volta conte alessandro giuseppe antonio anastasio volta conte alessandro volta count alessandro volta

    "volta" definitions

    Italian physicist after whom the volt is named; studied electric currents and invented the voltaic pile (1745-1827)


    a river in Ghana that flows south to the Bight of Benin