Inspired by Galvani’s discoveries, fellow Italian scientist Alessandro Volta would go on to invent, in 1800, the first electrical battery—the voltaic pile—which consisted of brine-soaked pieces of ...

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 ...

Combining several pairs (named a voltaic pile), he invented the first battery. Scientists and inventors around the world were enamored with the discovery. Not long afterward, the technology was ...