voltaic pile

first electrical battery that could continuously provide an electric current to a circuit
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voltaic pile

Summary

voltaic pile is a battery[1]. It draws 476 Wikipedia views per month (battery category, ranking #2 of 11).[2]

Key Facts

  • voltaic pile's image is recorded as Volta battery-MHS 373-IMG 3840-gradient.jpg[3].
  • voltaic pile's instance of is recorded as battery[4].
  • Alessandro Volta is named after voltaic pile[5].
  • voltaic pile's GND ID is recorded as 4708157-0[6].
  • voltaic pile's designed by is recorded as Alessandro Volta[7].
  • voltaic pile's Commons category is recorded as Voltaic pile[8].
  • +1800-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of voltaic pile[9].
  • voltaic pile's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1800-00-00T00:00:00Z[10].
  • voltaic pile's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07_7k[11].
  • voltaic pile's location of creation is recorded as Como[12].
  • voltaic pile's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[13].
  • voltaic pile's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/voltaic-pile[14].
  • voltaic pile's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00037140n[15].
  • voltaic pile's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as pile-de-volta[16].
  • voltaic pile's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as Voltas_søyle[17].
  • voltaic pile's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i60893[18].
  • voltaic pile's World of Physics ID is recorded as VoltaicPile[19].
  • voltaic pile's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 103883747[20].
  • voltaic pile's Lex ID is recorded as voltasøjle[21].
  • voltaic pile's Vikidia article ID is recorded as fr:Pile_de_Volta[22].

Why It Matters

voltaic pile draws 476 Wikipedia views per month (battery category, ranking #2 of 11).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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