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Daily Archive for March 20th, 2012

March 20

1900 Serbian-American engineer Nikola Tesla received a United States patent (#645576) for a “System of Transmission of Electrical Energy”. 1800 Italian physicist Alessandro Volta wrote a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, the president of the Royal Society of London, in which he described his voltaic pile. It was an early electric battery, which produced a [...]

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