Electrical engineering credited with establishing the term "electricity". He also designed the versorium: a device that detects the presence of statically charged objects. In 1762 Swedish professor Johan Carl Wilcke invented a device later named electrophorus that produced a static electric charge. By 1800 Alessandro Volta had developed the voltaic pile, a forerunner of the electric battery In the 19th century, research into the subject started to intensify. Notable developments in this century include the work of Georg Ohm, who in 1827 quantified the relationship between the electric current and potential difference in a conductor, of Michael Faraday (the discoverer of electromagnetic
Alessandro Salvio Alessandro Salvio Alessandro Salvio (c. 1570 – c. 1640) was an Italian chess player who is considered to be the unofficial world champion around the year 1600. He started an Italian chess academy in Naples, Italy, and wrote a book called "Trattato dell'Inventione et Arte Liberale del Gioco Degli Scacchi", which was published in Naples in 1604. He also wrote "Il Puttino" published in 1634. According to JH Saratt's translation, Il Puttino was first published in 1604, and republished in 1634. [1] SALUIO NAPOLITANO, DOTTOR ALESSANDRO: TRATTATO DELL’ INVENTIONE ET ARTE LIEBERALE DEL GIOCO DI SCACCHI, Diuiso in Di-scorsi, Sbaratti,