Tag: Alessandro Volta

Alessandro Volta reported his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London, on this day in 1800. Did you know that: • Frederick Winslow Taylor was an American mechanical engineer born on this day in 1856• Jan Matzeliger was granted a patent for a “lasting […]

Auguste Bartholdi was awarded a patent for his design of the Statue of Liberty on this day in 1879. Did you know that: • Alessandro Volta, an Italian inventor of the electric battery, was born on this day in 1745• Mark Twain published the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” on this day in 1885• Nellie Jay […]