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And Italian. It’s actually named after Alessandro Volta’s (the guy who named the Volt) name for the "Pila di Volta" - his stack of soaked rags that stored elect
by nikodunk 2y ago
And Italian. It’s actually named after Alessandro Volta’s (the guy who named the Volt) name for the "Pila di Volta" - his stack of soaked rags that stored electricity, or what we'd nowadays call a battery stack. Pila is a Pile that stores electricity or a Battery - Pila :)
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoHuh. I always sorta associated the word with a voltaic pile ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaic_pile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaic_pile ), which... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pila https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pila gives an etymology of coming from Latin's "pīla" = "pillar", which feels close? Or maybe it's just a coincidence.
- chadconway 2y agoThat’s 100% it! It was named after the Voltaic Pile or Pile/Stack of Volts.