No. 4 (2025): Issue № 4

On the Cover – Alessandro Volta is experimenting with his electric battery. Lithograph of the Florentine company Ballagny e Figli.

Source: Pistelli G. Storia d'Italia dal 1815 fino alla promulgazione del Regno d'Italia narrata al popolo. Firenze: Angelo Usigli editore, 1864, 963 p..

225 years ago, in 1800, the great Italian scientist Alessandro Volta created the first electric battery in history, which consisted of copper and zinc discs soaked in electrolyte (volt column). This invention was a powerful impetus in the development of the science of electricity.