Voltaic pile Voltaic pile The voltaic pile was the first electrical battery that could continuously provide an electric current to a circuit. It was invented by Italian physicist Alessandro Volta, who published his experiments in 1799. The voltaic pile then enabled a rapid series of other discoveries including the electrical decomposition (electrolysis) of water into oxygen and hydrogen by William Nicholson and Anthony Carlisle (1800) and the discovery or isolation of the chemical elements sodium (1807), potassium (1807), calcium (1808), boron (1808), barium (1808), strontium (1808), and magnesium (1808) by Humphry Davy. The entire 19th century electrical industry was powered by batteries
It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous This was followed by a 12 date Germany/Netherlands tour in December. Some shows were recorded and were released as "The Business Trip" and the mistitled "Treworgey 1989" CD. Atomhenge CD bonus tracks It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous is the eighteenth studio album by the English space rock group Hawkwind, released in 1993. It spent one week on the UK albums chart at #75. As with the previous album, "Electric Tepee", the group remained a three-piece of guitarist Dave Brock, bassist Alan Davey and drummer Richard