- Full name Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta
- Italian physicist, famous for the invention of the electric cell
- Invented the electrophorus, a device used to create static electricity
- Investigated the reaction of gases such as methane with an electric spark
- Named electric charges V and Q, and stated that in any given object they are proportionate
- Stated that a frog’s leg (the salty fluids within) was a conductor and detector of electricity
- Full name Luigi Galvani
- Italian physicist
- Conducted the famous frog’s leg experiment, where he touched a frog’s leg with two pieces of metal, and observed it twitch
- His experiments led to the invention of the metallic arc
- Proposed (incorrectly) that electricity was the essence of life
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