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Alessandro Volta, an Italian scientist, announced the first battery in 1800. It was a tall stack of metal discs separated by cloth soaked in salty water, and he called it his artificial electric organ, because it worked a bit like the shock organs of electric fish such as the electric eel.

Before that, people could only make quick sparks of static electricity. Volta's battery gave a steady flow that lasted, and scientists used it to discover many new things about electricity. The volt, the unit that measures electrical push, is named after him.