Ok - Good job on the first enquiry. (I posted your work below.) Now, I'd like for you to investigate a little more with regard to Volta and his contemporaries (folks who lived and worked around the same time).
Paper: Volta and the Battery
1. From the title of the paper, it can easy be infered that the paper has to do with batteries, elcetricity, cunduction, and a man named Volta.
2.The paper was written in September 1800, and at the time the French revoltionary war and the Nepoleonic wars were raging, and John Adamws was President of the United States.
3.Alessandro Volta had a passion with and was fascinated by electricity.He improved upon the electrophorus, an instrument that produces static electricity, and invented a forerunner of the modern battery. I think we worked with electricity and batteries ecause electricity fascinated him and it awas a new ground in science to be vastly improved on.
January 29, 2008 8:55 AM
New Questions:
1. Were there other scientists around the same time who were working on electricity or batteries? Who were they? What were they doing?
2. Who were the scientists that continued his work?
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Other scientists working on similar projects around the same time as volta were -
- Luigi Galvani, discovered that muscle and nerve cells produce electricity and that muscles of dead fogs twiched when hit by a spark.
- André-Marie Ampère, established relations between electricity and magnetism.
- Georg Ohm, defined the relationship among voltage, current, and resistance in an electrical circut.
A few of the scientists that continued his work were
- Nikola Tesla, his patents formed the basis of modern alternating current, and he himself demonstration wireless communication (radio) in 1893.
- Thomas Alva Edison, he invented the phonograph and light bulb, and filed over 1000 U.S. patents in his name.
- Antonio Pacinotti, invented an improved form of direct-current electrical generator, or dynamo in 1865.
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