alessandro giuseppe antonio anastasio volta was an italian physicist and chemist who was a pioneer of electricity and power. he is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane. volta was born in como, italy in 1745 and died in 1827. he invented the voltaic pile in 1799, and reported the results of his experiments in 1800 in a two-part letter to the president of the royal society. volta's invention sparked a great amount of scientific excitement and led others to conduct similar experiments, which eventually led to the development of the field of electrochemis…