history of the battery was one of Galvanis correspondents, Italian physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827).
Working at the University of Pavia, Volta obtained the same results as did Galvani. But Volta was not satisfied with Galvani’s conclusion and tried some new experiments of his own. Two results followed: Volta created the first battery and he alienated his friend Galvani. Volta came to believe that contact between the two dissimilar metals created the electricity that caused the frog’s muscle to contract, the opposite of Galvani’s deduction. In trying to prove his point, Volta first filled bowls with a salt solution and linked them together with arcs of metal, one end of the first arc being copper and the other zinc. Each bowl had two ends of two different metal arcs in it, one end of each metal. The device, the first modern battery, produced electricity by the chemical reactions of the metals in the solutions.
