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Google on Wednesday celebrated the 270th birth anniversary of Alessandro Volta - inventor of battery - with a doodle on its homepage.
A simple click on doodle leads to the battery lighting up and the various letters of the word Google appear on it.
Born in 1745 in Como, Italy, Volta became a professor of physics in 1774 at Como’s Royal School.
Volta believed that metals could produce current and developed the first battery or 'voltaic pile', a series of copper and zinc strips in salt water that gave off an electric current.
It was his interest in electricity that led to the development of eletrophorus, a device that generates static electricity.
It was in Volta's honour and keeping in mind his contribution to electrical science that the unit of measuring electrical potential was named as "volt".
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