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 Volta realised the main factors of Galvani's discovery were the two different metals concerned - the steel of the knife and the tin plate upon which the frog was lying.
- He showed that when moisture comes between two different metals, electricity is created.
- This led him to invent the first electric battery, which he made from thin sheets of copper and zinc separated by paper soaked in acid.
- In this way, a new kind of electricity was discovered, electricity that flowed steadily like a current of water instead of discharging itself in a single spark or shock.
- Volta showed that electricity could be made to travel from one place to another by wire, thereby making an important contribution to the science of electricity.
- The unit of electric potential , the Volt, is named after Volta.
- The credit for producing or generating current electricity on a practical scales however, goes to the famous English scientist Michael Faraday.
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