Electric battery (Volta’s pile)

Sources and checks

Checked 2026-10-19: Claude (AI build agent): Wikidata statement compared, passages containing the year extracted from the fetched pages and read. Quotes are short passages from each source, in their original language.

Wikidata P575: 1800Q663273, CC0, retrieved 2026-10-19

“av Sivilingeniør Knut Hofstad Kopi av batteriet Alessandro Volta sendte til Michael Faraday ved Royal Institution i London i 1800. Hver celle består av en kobberplate og en sinkplate samt et tøystykke fuktet i”Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian): source, retrieved 2026-10-19

“Kemi Elektrokemi Skrevet af Professor emeritus Mogens Bjerg Mogensen Voltasøjle, det ældste elektriske batteri , hvis princip i 1800 blev beskrevet af A. Volta efter adskillige års arbejde med galvaniske elementer .”Lex (Den Store Danske) (in Danish): source, retrieved 2026-10-19

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