BaalChatzaf Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Today, 2/18/2015 is the 270th anniversary of birth of Alessandro Volta, who invented the first practical storage battery for electrical energy. His invention provided a practical means of producing sustained electrical power and was used by others to discover the properties of electricity and magnetism. He reported his invention/discovery in the year 1800. Twenty four years later Hans Christrian Oersted, a Danish scientist, discovered that a current of electricity flowing through a wire produced a magnetic force on a compass needle. In short, moving electricity is a magnet. About six years later Micheal Faraday, an English scientist discovered that a moving or changing magnetic field produces an electric current.And the rest is history.....The electromagnetic age was born and the world has not been the same since. Without Volta's invention** I would not be typing this small remembrance to you on a computer network.Ba'al Chatzaf ** if Volta had not invented his electric battery, it is highly probable that someone else would have eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Funny, he doesn't look Jewish...Seems like he is Italian hmmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_VoltaA... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 The modern world is hinged on Faraday.--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 The modern world is hinged on Faraday.--BrantWho would not have been able to make the worlds first electric motor without a steady current.Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 The modern world is hinged on Faraday.--BrantWho would not have been able to make the worlds first electric motor without a steady current.Ba'al Chatzaf I said "hinged." I didn't say "based." In the context of this discussion we can say "based on the industrial revolution" even though it's hardly that simple: Ayn Rand would say "Aristotle" and you might in contradistinction say "Archimedes." Etc. I am not contradicting you and you didn't contradict me.--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 The modern world is hinged on Faraday.--BrantWho would not have been able to make the worlds first electric motor without a steady current.Ba'al Chatzaf I said "hinged." I didn't say "based." In the context of this discussion we can say "based on the industrial revolution" even though it's hardly that simple: Ayn Rand would say "Aristotle" and you might in contradistinction say "Archimedes." Etc.I am not contradicting you and you didn't contradict me.--BrantFaraday is key to modern physics. He invented the field concept. Maxwell had the mathematical chops to pick it up and run with it. Physics was completely transformed by the field concept. It eliminated "action at a distance" as a problem. The field is the agent of interaction connecting two objects that generate or respond to the field.Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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