Volta

(noun.) a river in Ghana that flows south to the Bight of Benin.

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

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• Volta of Pavia, took decided issue with Galvani and maintained that the pretended animal electricity was nothing but electricity developed by the contact of two different metals. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• With the Volta prize he founded the Volta Laboratory in Washington for the use of students. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• It originated with Volta, Cruikshank, and Wollaston in the very first year of the century. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The galvanic or voltaic battery by Volta in 1800. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• He experimented with galvanic electricity, and increased the powers of Volta’s Galvanic Pile. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The pile and cup battery of Volta had been succeeded by the trough battery--a long box filled with separated plates set in dilute acid. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• With the first year of the new century came Volta's invention of the chemical battery as a means of producing electricity. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The discoveries of Galvani and Volta at once set leading scientists at work. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In 1880 the government of France awarded him the Volta prize of fifty thousand francs and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The focus of his scientific interest, however, rested on the furtherance of the application of the electrical studies of Galvani and Volta in chemical analysis. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The development of the battery began with Galvani in 1790, and Volta in 1800. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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