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| | CBC4Kids: History of Inventions, a timeline from Pottery to Computers. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | A battery, or electric cell, is a device that converts chemical energy into electricity. |
 | | In 1774, Volta was a physics professor at the Royal School of Como, Italy, where he developed an idea for an instrument that produced controlled charges of static electricity. |
 | | The problem with the voltaic cell was that it lost power rapidly once current was drawn from it. |
| www.cbc.ca /kids/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/battery.html (0 words) |
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