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February 18th is National Battery Day, it is also Alessandro Volta’s birthday. On March 20th, 1800 a letter addressed from Alessandro Volta to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London, reported the first “electric pile.” The first modern form of batteries was the electric pile, or Voltaic pile which is credited to Alessandro Volta. The birth of the Voltaic pile came from a dispute between Volta and another Italian scientist, Luigi Galvani. Galvani experimented by attaching a frog to an iron rail and held the frog with a copper hook through its spine, turning the frog into a conductor for the current causing it to twitch. ?Which lead Galvani to believe he had discovered a new electricity he called “animal electricity.” He believed the frog legs were generating the current rather than being a vehicle for the current. Volta publicly disagreed with Galvani sparking controversy and a good old fashioned scientific dispute. Instead of frogs, Volta used paper soaked in salt water (or salt vinegar) placed between discs of copper and zinc. Touching a piece of wire to the top and bottom of the pile allowed the electricity to flow through the wire giving us the first battery. So, in theory, one could make their own Voltaic pile with pickle juice, pennies, and some zinc plated washers from the hardware store? It’s incredible how far we’ve come from voltaic piles to the sophisticated energy storage solutions we have today. Since today is National Battery Day, MAC would like to extend a thank you to Alessandro Volta for laying the foundation for energy storage. MAC can help streamline the battery making process, but we wouldn’t be helping anyone make the best batteries in the world without Volta. #energystorage #batteries #Volta #Voltaicpile #electricpile?#AlessandroVolta #Alessandro #engineering #automation #industrialengineering #industrialautomation #MAC #MACengineering #NationalBatteryDay #BatteryIndustry #MadeInUSA #AmericanManufacturing
