Life Electric — A contemporary sculpture, dedicated to the physicist Alessandro Volta.
Completed in 2015 it is located in Como, Italy. Life Electric was designed by Daniel Libeskind Photo Credit: By Rehman Abubakr, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50199338
Life Electric
A contemporary sculpture, dedicated to the physicist Alessandro Volta.
Completed in 2015 it is located in Como, Italy. Life Electric was designed by Daniel Libeskind
Tempio Voltiano — Volta Temple is a museum dedicated to Alessandro Volta, a prolific scientist and the inventor of the electrical battery. It is located in his hometown of Como, Italy, and was designed by Federico Frigerio. It was completed in 1927 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Volta's death. Photo Credit: By Daniel Case (talk) - I (Daniel Case (talk)) created this work entirely by myself., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56390746
Tempio Voltiano
Volta Temple is a museum dedicated to Alessandro Volta, a prolific scientist and the inventor of the electrical battery. It is located in his hometown of Como, Italy, and was designed by Federico Frigerio. It was completed in 1927 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Volta's death.
Italian £ 10.000 Note — Front side: Alessandro Volta; Electrophor ("Volta Column", galvanic battery)
Back side: Museum "Tempio Voltiano" in Como Photo Credit: By OneArmedMan - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3024819
Italian £ 10.000 Note
Front side: Alessandro Volta; Electrophor ("Volta Column", galvanic battery)
Back side: Museum "Tempio Voltiano" in Como
Aula Magna, University of Pavia — Photo Credit: By Giorgio Gonnella - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=94107
A copper-zinc voltaic pile — Photo Credit: By Borbrav, svg version by Luigi Chiesa - Image:Voltaic pile.png, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5091724
Alessandro Volta — Photo Credit: By http://www.anthroposophie.net/bibliothek/nawi/physik/volta/bib_volta.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1678917
Michael Faraday — cropped Photo Credit: By Thomas Phillips - Thomas Phillips, 1842, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=463384
Earth's magnetic field — This stereoscopic visualization shows a simple model of the Earth's magnetic field. The magnetic field partially shields the Earth from harmful charged particles emanating from the sun. The field is stretched back away from Sun by solar particle and radiation pressures.
The geomagnetic field is generated (and regenerated) as the conducting fluid of the Earth's mantle and core, driven by convection of heat from deeper in the interior, induces an electromotive force (EMF) with the existing magnetic field. This process is very similar to the way an electric generator generates a voltage. That voltage then drives an induced current in the conducting fluid, which also produces a magnetic field. This feedback mechanism helps maintain the field, continuously converting the thermal energy in the Earth into magnetic field energy.
The magnetic field line data used in this visualization is from a simplified static model. More complex models deform the magnetic field over time as the Earth rotates and experiences solar pressures. Many of the field lines (particulary near the back, away from the Sun) should eventually connect (north and south poles), but the 3d model used in this visualization does not extend far enough to see this.
The day/night terminator is aligned with the Sun and is therefore aligned with the magnetic field too. Photo Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio - https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3822
Earth's magnetic field
This stereoscopic visualization shows a simple model of the Earth's magnetic field. The magnetic field partially shields the Earth from harmful charged particles emanating from the sun. The field is stretched back away from Sun by solar particle and radiation pressures.
The geomagnetic field is generated (and regenerated) as the conducting fluid of the Earth's mantle and core, driven by convection of heat from deeper in the interior, induces an electromotive force (EMF) with the existing magnetic field. This process is very similar to the way an electric generator generates a voltage. That voltage then drives an induced current in the conducting fluid, which also produces a magnetic field. This feedback mechanism helps maintain the field, continuously converting the thermal energy in the Earth into magnetic field energy.
The magnetic field line data used in this visualization is from a simplified static model. More complex models deform the magnetic field over time as the Earth rotates and experiences solar pressures. Many of the field lines (particulary near the back, away from the Sun) should eventually connect (north and south poles), but the 3d model used in this visualization does not extend far enough to see this.
The day/night terminator is aligned with the Sun and is therefore aligned with the magnetic field too.