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Luigi Galvini, an Italian anatomy professor, in 1771 discovered electric current but didn't really know it. Unintentionally, he found that when he hung a recently killed frog by a copper hook and hung the frog over an iron railing, that it's legs twitched when it touched the iron railing. He then incorrectly assumed that the legs had what he called "Animal electricity" and when they touched the iron the electricity was released. In the 1790's a Italian physicist, Alessandro Volta discovered the real reason the frogs legs twitched. He found that the copper hook and the iron had a chemical reaction when the wet tissue was placed in between it and produced electricity. Volta then went on to build the first battery. He made it by stacking discs of silver and zinc and alternating them with a piece of paper or cloth moistened with a salt solution. This was the first source of steady electricity. |
Life without Nintendo???Animal ElectricityPretty sappy if you ask meBring in the HeavyweightsBenny gets PositiveWhat do frog legs have to...Push it!Things are heating up
Speeding things along
Michael got his gas to light...Ray gun?Life without electricity???
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