{"id":3435,"date":"2015-02-18T15:06:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T11:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=3435"},"modified":"2015-02-18T15:06:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T11:06:23","slug":"did-you-know-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/did-you-know-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is\u00a0Alessandro Volta&#8217;s 270th birthday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/media-1.web.britannica.com\/eb-media\/22\/8422-004-4E7261A1.jpg\" width=\"212\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alessandro Volta is the inventor of one of the most important inventions to date. Google celebrates the battery inventor&#8217;s birthday today.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">If you click on Google&#8217;s doodle, it shows\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">battery charging and Google lighting up at the same time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"315\" height=\"177\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UuwLEI41zRs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He was born in Como, Italy, and grew to become a professor of physics at the Royal School. His interest in electricity paved the way to the invention of electrophorus, a device used to generate static electricity.<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.antiquesnavigator.com\/ebay\/images\/2012\/230738246170.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"378\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">He also was the first person to isolate methane which further led to the discovery that methane mixed with air could be exploded with an electric spark.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>In honor of Volta&#8217;s contribution to electrical science, the unit of electrical potential came to be known as the Volt also known as Voltage.<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.legalsigns.co.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/product_full\/Warn162-Danger-High-voltage.jpg\" width=\"276\" height=\"248\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Alessandro Volta was also a master in many languages. He was proficient in Latin, French, German, and English helped him while travelling across Europe.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is\u00a0Alessandro Volta&#8217;s 270th birthday. Alessandro Volta is the inventor &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[1426,1430,631,182,1350,1429,186,187,1226,166,1427,1428],"class_list":["post-3435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-alessandro-volta","tag-battery","tag-did-you-know-3","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-february-2015","tag-google","tag-interesting-date","tag-interesting-fact","tag-interesting-people","tag-learn","tag-volt","tag-voltage","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3440,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions\/3440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}