Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (1745-1827) [Wikipedia] Battery
1800	Alessandro Volta On the electricity excited by the mere contact of conducting substances of dierent kinds. In a Letter from Mr. Alexander Volta, F. R. S. Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Pavia, to the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. P. R. S. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume 90, pp. 403-431 (1800). [DOI] [Archive]