A new Google Doodle is being wishing everyone today in the Google search remembering the legendary scientist Alessandro Volta. The Italian physicist Alessandro Volta’s doodle has been placed in the homepage of the Google on his 270^th birth anniversary. Alessandro Volta, published a theory in the year 1800 published that lead to the modern battery invention. He is well known for inventing the battery and is also known with the name, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta and was born in Como, Italy.

Modern Battery’s Forefather Alessandro Volta is Honored with a New Google Doodle

Google Doodle honors Alessandro Volta’s discovery with an animated battery that is reminiscent of both a voltaic pile and a battery life reminder on a modern day smart phone and power storage devices. The smallest name of the electrical unit is called by his name honoring Alessandro Volta, who became the professor of physics at the Royal School of Como. He invented electrophorus which can be used to generate electricity a year later. While working at the Royal School of Como he also discovered and isolated methane gas.

In the year 1779 Alessandro Volta was appointed as the chair of physics at the University of Pavia. Alessandro Volta ascended with development of the battery in the year 1780 when his Luigi Galvani discovered that contact of two different metals with the muscle of a frog resulted in the generation of an electric current. Later in the year 1794 Alessandro Volta discovered that animal tissue was not needed to produce a current while experimenting.

Later in the year 1800, Volta invented the first electric battery and showcased his invention in front of Napoleon in Paris, a year later.  Napoleon being impressed with Alessandro Volta’s invention he made Volta a count and senator of the kingdom of Lombardy. Although, he was made director of the philosophical faculty at the University of Padua in 1815 by the emperor of Austria. Volta retired in 1819 and died in the year 1827 in his estate in Camnago, a frazione of Como, Italy, now named “Camnago Volta” in his honor. Alessandro Volta’s remainings were buried in Camnago Volta. His legacy is celebrated by the Tempio Voltiano memorial located in the public gardens by the lake and a museum was built in his honor which exhibits some of the equipment that Volta used to conduct experiments.