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A Shocking Discovery
On February 18, 1745, Italian physicist Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was born. He became a professor of experimental physics. His friend Luigi Galvani found that introducing an electrostatic charge onto the spinal nerve of a dissected frog moved … Continue reading
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