Keywords: Voltaic pile battery.png Drawing of Alessandro Volta's voltaic pile invented in 1800 the first electric battery It was built of many individual cells each consisting of a disk of copper and a disk of zinc or silver separated by a disk of cloth soaked in acid or brine A 23 cell pile like this would have produced around 36 volts Alterations removed caption Downloaded from http //books google com/books id BgM5AAAAMAAJ pg PA795 Adolphe Ganot 1893 Elementary Treatise on Physics Experimental and Applied 14th Ed William Wood Co New York p 795 fig 764 on Google Books Translated from Ganot's Éléments de Physique by E Atkinson 1893 Adolphe Ganot Public domain - Ganot died in 1887 PD-old Voltaic pile |