英语词汇volt的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

volt; voltaic pile. Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta invented Volta’s pile or the voltaic pile in 1800, this the first electric battery or device for producing a continu- ous electric current. Volta, the son of an Italian Jesuit priest who left the order to marry, was something of a prodigy as a child. His voltaic pile consisted of zinc and silver plates stacked alternately with moist pads and touched with a conductor to produce an electric force. He also invented an electric condens- er and devised the electrochemical series. Before his death in 1827, aged 82, the scientist had reaped honors in almost every country in Europe, had statues erected to him and kings con- tending for his presence. Napoleon, who once visited his class- room to praise him, made Volta a member of France’s National Institute and a count and senator from the Kingdom of Lom- bardy in 1801. It is said that Bonaparte so admired the great pi- oneer that he once crossed out the last three letters from the phrase “Au grand Voltaire” inscribed on a wall of the National Institute library. Today the unit of electrical force called the volt sings electrically of his fame.

词汇	volt
词源	volt; voltaic pile. Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta invented Volta’s pile or the voltaic pile in 1800, this the first electric battery or device for producing a continu- ous electric current. Volta, the son of an Italian Jesuit priest who left the order to marry, was something of a prodigy as a child. His voltaic pile consisted of zinc and silver plates stacked alternately with moist pads and touched with a conductor to produce an electric force. He also invented an electric condens- er and devised the electrochemical series. Before his death in 1827, aged 82, the scientist had reaped honors in almost every country in Europe, had statues erected to him and kings con- tending for his presence. Napoleon, who once visited his class- room to praise him, made Volta a member of France’s National Institute and a count and senator from the Kingdom of Lom- bardy in 1801. It is said that Bonaparte so admired the great pi- oneer that he once crossed out the last three letters from the phrase “Au grand Voltaire” inscribed on a wall of the National Institute library. Today the unit of electrical force called the volt sings electrically of his fame.
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