Google doodle celebrates Alessandro Volta's 270th birth anniversary Wednesday Feb 18,2015

 

Google Doodle on Wednesday Feb 18,2015 celebrated 270th birth anniversary of battery inventor Alessandro Volta with a doodle on its homepage

A simple click on doodle shows a battery lighting up the letters in the word Google

Alessandro Volta was born in 1745 in the town of Como. He became a professor of physics in 1774 at Como’s Royal School before going on to work on the development of the 'electrophorus', a device that produced static electricity

With respect to Alessandro Volta's contribution to the electrical science that the unit of electrical potential came to be known as volt

Alessandro Volta,the Italian physicist died on March 5, 1827 and a  museum was built in his memory which displayed some of his experimental equipment