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Definition of Count Alessandro Volta
1. Noun. Italian physicist after whom the volt is named; studied electric currents and invented the voltaic pile (1745-1827).
Generic synonyms: Physicist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Count Alessandro Volta
Literary usage of Count Alessandro Volta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical physics by Robert Andrews Millikan, Henry Gordon Gale, Willard R. Pyle (1922)
"i Count Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) Great Italian physicist, professor at Como
and at Pavia ; inventor of the electroscope, ..."
2. Switzerland, Together with Chamonix and the Italian Lakes: Handbook for by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1922)
"The little Piazza Volta, to the SW of the Piazza Cavour, contains a statue of
Count Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), the physicist, another native of Como. ..."
3. Elements of General Science by Otis William Caldwell, William Lewis Eikenberry (1918)
"The unit of electrical pressure (electromotive force) is called the volt in honor
of Count Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), a great Italian physicist. ..."
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