The Volta was immediately sold for breaking and two new ferries were ordered, which entered service in 1925 and 1926.

Volta had determined that the most effective pair of dissimilar metals to produce electricity was zinc and silver.

Building on Galvani's 1780s discovery of how a circuit of two metals and a frog's leg can cause the frog's leg to respond, Volta demonstrated in 1794 that when two metals and brine-soaked cloth or cardboard are arranged in a circuit they produce an electric current.

Volta characterized the emf of a pair of metals in terms of the difference in their voltages, which he could measure.

Because Volta believed that the electromotive force occurred at the contact between the two metals, Volta's piles had a different design than the modern design illustrated on this page.

* 1806 — Alessandro Volta employs a voltaic pile to decompose potash and soda, showing that they are the oxides of the previously unknown metals potassium and sodium.

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

Although it was later found that these effects were caused by different physical processes-triboelectricity, the Volta effect, differing work functions of metals, and others-at the time they were all thought to be caused by a common ' contact electrification ' process.

In fact, the Volta effect does correspond to a weak electric potential difference developed by the contact of different metals.

This effect was first discovered by Alessandro Volta, and can be measured using a capacitance electroscope comprising different metals.

If two metals having differing work functions are touched together, one steals electrons from the other, and the opposite net charges grow larger and larger ; this is the Volta effect.

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.

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.

Before forming The Mars Volta, Cedric Bixler and Omar Rodriguez ( members of the post hardcore group At The Drive In ), along with friends Ikey Owens and Jeremy Ward, recorded a series of dub albums under the name De Facto.

* What is said to be The Volta ( but is actually another dance ) can be seen in the dance being performed by Jonathan Rhys Meyers playing Henry VIII and Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn in the second season's seventh episode of Showtime's original series The Tudors.

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.

* 1800 – Alessandro Volta: discovers electrochemical series and invents the battery

* Volta ( TV series ), a 2008 Philippine TV series based on its namesake 2004 movie

* Reaper ( TV series )-Mike Volta

* In the Republic of Upper Volta ( since 4 January 1947 a French territory ; present Burkina Faso, renamed 4 August 1984 ), since the 11 December 1958 grant of Autonomy as a ' republic ', République de Haute-Volta, there were two High commissioners:

* Casali, Roderic F. ( 1995 ) ' On the Reduction of Vowel Systems in Volta – Congo ', African Languages and Cultures, 8, 2, Dec, 109 – 121.

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

A new stage started for Upper Volta which became Burkina Faso “ Land of integrity people ”.

The battery made by Volta is credited as the first electrochemical cell.

Burkina Faso ( formerly Upper Volta ) is a landlocked Sahel country that shares borders with six nations.

The Black Volta is one of the country's only two rivers which flow year-round, the other being the Komoé, which flows to the southwest.

* 1932 – The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.

The River Oti which drains the plateau is one of the main tributaries of the River Volta.

The volt is named in honor of the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta ( 1745 – 1827 ), who invented the voltaic pile, possibly the first chemical battery.

Construction of this dam is under legal challenge by environment and indigenous groups, who assert the dam would have negative environmental and social impacts along with reducing the flow by up to 80 % along a stretch known as the " Big Bend " ( Volta Grande ).

The river is divided into three parts — the Black Volta, White Volta, and Red Volta, which form the colors of the national flag corresponding to parts of the river.

The Volta is a river in western Africa that drains into the Gulf of Guinea.

Lake Volta in Ghana is the largest reservoir in the world, extending from the Akosombo Dam in southeastern Ghana to the town of Yapei, some to the north.

The depth of the river is, in location of Lake Volta.

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It is also referred to in the lyrics of Morrissey, Public Image Limited, Supernatural and The Mars Volta.

The SI unit of electric potential is the volt ( in honor of Alessandro Volta ), which is why electric potential is also known as voltage.

Como was the birthplace of many historically notable figures, including the ( somewhat obscure ) poet Caecilius who is mentioned by Catullus in the 1st century BCE, the far more substantial literary figures of Pliny the Elder and the Younger, Pope Innocent XI, the scientist Alessandro Volta, and Cosima Liszt, second wife of Richard Wagner and long-term director of the Bayreuth Festival.

The term electromotive force is due to Alessandro Volta ( 1745 – 1827 ), who invented the battery, or voltaic pile.

But that is only one reading of how the Groupe des Six originated: other authors, like Ornella Volta, would stress the manoeuvrings of Jean Cocteau to become the leader of an avant-garde group devoted to music, like the cubist and surrealist groups had sprung in visual arts and literature shortly before, with Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire and André Breton as their key representatives.

The term Tex-Mex is also used in American rock and roll for Tejano-influenced performers such as the Sir Douglas Quintet and the Texas Tornados ( featuring Flaco Jiménez, Freddy Fender, Augie Meyers, Doug Sahm ); Los Super Seven ; Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs ; Los Lobos and Latin Playboys ; Sunny and the Sunliners ; Louie and the Lovers ; The Champs ; Ry Cooder ; Calexico ; Cecilia with Viva Texas ; The Mars Volta ; Los Lonely Boys ; and Selena y Los Dinos.

Georgetown is home to the main campus of Georgetown University and numerous other landmarks, such as the Volta Bureau and the Old Stone House, the oldest unchanged building in Washington.

The Mars Volta is extremely influenced by jazz fusion, using progressive, unexpected turns in the drum patterns and instrumental lines.