The loss of the naturally fertile soils beneath Lake Volta essentially led to the loss of traditional farming practices.

This kind of cell includes the Galvanic cell or Voltaic cell, named after Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta, both scientists who conducted several experiments on chemical reactions and electric current during the late 18th century.

Work by Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta uncovered the electrochemical properties of zinc by 1800.

The phenomenon was dubbed galvanism, after Galvani, on the suggestion of his peer and sometime intellectual adversary Alessandro Volta.

Alessandro Volta, a professor of physics in Pavia, was among the first scientists who repeated and checked Galvani ’ s experiments.

Volta believed that the contractions depended on the metals Galvani used to connect nerves and muscles in his experiments.

After the controversy with Volta, Galvani kept a low profile partly because of his attitude towards the controversy, and partly because his health and spirits had declined, especially after the death of his wife, Lucia, in 1790.

Since Galvani was reluctant to intervene in the controversy with Volta, he trusted his nephew to act as the main defender of the theory of animal electricity.

A Galvanic cell, or Voltaic cell, named after Luigi Galvani, or Alessandro Volta respectively, is an electrochemical cell that derives electrical energy from spontaneous redox reaction taking place within the cell.

While in Rome he became acquainted with the work of the pioneers in electricity such as Luigi Galvani ( 1737 – 1798 ) who was a pioneer in modern obstetrics and Alessandro Volta ( 1745 – 1827 ) who is known especially for the development of the electric battery.

His interpretation is closer to the one accepted nowadays than those proposed by Galvani (“ animal electricity ”) and Alessandro Volta ( electricity generated by metallic contact ), but it was not accepted at the time.

Lying between Volta and Stokes in the north, and Galvani in the south, is the worn Langley.

Galvani is a lunar crater that lies close to the northwestern limb of the Moon, due south of the larger walled plain Volta.

It partly overlies the southeast rim of the crater Langley, which occupies half the gap between Volta and Galvani.

It is located in the gap between the crater Galvani, which lies across the southeastern rim, and Volta along the northeastern rim.

It lies to the northeast of the crater Galvani and southeast of the walled plain Volta.

The Bakken's present director David Rhees once identified the most significant holdings as works by Jean Antoine Nollet, Benjamin Franklin, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Luigi Galvani, Giovanni Aldini, Alessandro Volta, Guillame Benjamin Amand Duchenne, and Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond and the journals Annalen der Physik, the Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society and Zeitschrift für Physik.

In recognition of his contribution to the creation of modern electrical science, an international convention signed in 1881 established the ampere as a standard unit of electrical measurement, along with the coulomb, volt, ohm, and watt, which are named, respectively, after Ampère ’ s contemporaries Charles-Augustin de Coulomb of France, Alessandro Volta of Italy, Georg Ohm of Germany, and James Watt of Scotland.

A number of high-voltage dry piles were invented between the early 19th century and the 1830s in an attempt to determine the source of electricity of the wet voltaic pile, and specifically to support Volta ’ s hypothesis of contact tension.

Courbet had under his immediate command the first-class cruisers Duguay-Trouin, Villars and d ’ Estaing, the third-class cruiser Volta ( which he chose as his flagship during the engagement ), the gunboats Lynx, Aspic and Vipère and Torpedo Boats No. 45 and No. 46.

Major Dr. Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo ( born June 30, 1942 ) was President of Upper Volta ( now Burkina Faso ) from 8 November 1982 to 4 August 1983, when he was overthrown in a coup d ’ état which brought Thomas Sankara into power.

Timbaland worked on seven songs for Björk ’ s new album, Volta, including " Earth Intruders ", " Hope ", and " Innocence "< ref >

In particular, resettlement villages have showed an increase in disease prevalence since the establishment of Lake Volta, and a village ’ s likelihood of infection corresponds to its proximity to the lake.

Increased economic risks and experiences of poverty are associated with those communities most impacted by the Volta River ’ s development.

Using a sensitive galvanometer of Leopoldo Nobili, he was able to prove that injured excitable biological tissues generated direct electrical currents, and that they could be summed up by adding elements in series, like in Alessandro Volta ’ s ( 1745-1827 ) electric pile.

A number of high voltage dry piles were invented between the early 19th century and the 1830s in an attempt to determine the answer to this question, and specifically to support Volta ’ s hypothesis of contact tension.

Wilkinson ’ s brother-in-law, Joseph Priestley, investigated gases, leading Alessandro Volta to invent “ bad air ” ( marsh gas ) detectors and ignitors.

In 1880, the French government awarded Bell the Volta Prize of 50, 000 francs ( approximately US $ 10, 000 at that time, about $ in current dollars ) for the invention of the telephone, which he used to found the Volta Laboratory, along with Sumner Tainter and Bell's cousin Chichester Bell.

Volta developed the voltaic cell about 1792, and presented his work March 20, 1800.

The original site of Los Banos was located several miles from the current town center, about a mile and half west of the railroad near present day Volta.

Lake Volta was formed between the years of 1962 and 1966, and necessitated the relocation of about 80, 000 people, that represented 1 % of the population.

The Bradford Disarmament Research Centre along with the National Defence Medical College in Japan and the Landau Network Centro Volta in Italy have developed an Educational Module Resources ( EMR ) designed to support life scientists and educators in learning about biosecurity and dual use issues but also in building educational material for teaching of students.

Black Volta or Mouhoun is a river of western Africa rising in western Burkina Faso and flowing about 1, 352 km ( 840 mi ) to the White Volta in Ghana.

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Because of the formation of Lake Volta, about 78, 000 people were relocated to new towns and villages, along with 200, 000 animals belonging to them.

Ewe, also written Evhe, or Eʋe, is a major dialect cluster of Gbe or Tadoid ( Capo 1991, Duthie 1996 ) spoken in some south-eastern parts of the Volta Region of Ghana, across to southern Togo, and as far as just across the Togo-Benin border by about three million people.

Johnny Loftus of Allmusic stated that it " really makes you miss the focused intensity of the band's salad days ", and that because of the stylistic improvisations of the band members ' post-At the Drive-In projects The Mars Volta and Sparta " it's easy to forget about At the Drive-In's capacity for convention.

The river originates near Ouagadougou and flows about 320 km to join the White Volta.

The most distant of Akuse cotton growing area in the region, the landscape Awudome which about 13-15 km from the Volta.

Examples include Les statues meurent aussi by Chris Marker and Alain Resnais about European robbery of African art ( which was banned by the French for 10 years ) and Afrique 50 by René Vauthier about anti-colonial riots in Côte d ' Ivoire and in Upper Volta ( now Burkina Faso ).

After about 150 live performances between 2004 and 2005, and appearances on various Italian rap records, Club Dogo released videos for the singles " Butta via tutto ", " Una Volta Sola " and " D. O. G. O ".

These improvements were invented by Alexander Bell's cousin Chester Bell, a chemist, and Charles Sumner Tainter, an optical instrument maker, at Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory in Washington, D. C. Hubbard and Chester Bell approached Edison about combining their interests, but Edison refused, resulting in the Volta Laboratory Association merging the shares of their Volta Graphophone Company with the company that later evolved into Columbia Records in 1886.

The Kintampo people lived in villages composed of rectangular wattle and daub structures ( the historical shape and material of Akan buildings ) at Netereso, overlooking the White Volta, 50 km west of Tamale, in a settlement covering about 750 square metres.