Electric battery common fuels such as gasoline. In automobiles, this is somewhat offset by the higher efficiency of electric motors in converting chemical energy to mechanical work, compared to combustion engines. The usage of "battery" to describe a group of electrical devices dates to Benjamin Franklin, who in 1748 described multiple Leyden jars by analogy to a battery of cannon (Benjamin Franklin borrowed the term "battery" from the military, which refers to weapons functioning together). Italian physicist Alessandro Volta built and described the first electrochemical battery, the voltaic pile, in 1800. This was a stack of copper and zinc plates, separated by
Alessandro Bruschetti Alessandro Bruschetti Alessandro Bruschetti (1910 – 2 January 1980) was an Italian Futurist artist. The second most important Futurist painter from Umbria. Bruschetti was born in 1910 in Perugia which is where he studied art. He was influenced by a meeting with the futurist artist Gerardo Dottori. He is considered the second most important Futurist painter from Umbria after Dottori. In 1931 he moved to Rome to train as a teacher. Whilst he was there, one of his paintings, "Dynamism of horses", was lauded by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti who was the founder of futurism. With Marinetti's approval he joined the