Quote of the day
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Alessandro Volta
Born: February 18, 1745
Died: March 5, 1827 (aged 82)
Bio: Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was an Italian physicist, chemist, and a pioneer of electricity and power, who is credited as the inventor of the electrical battery and the discoverer of methane.