Volta, Alessandrino, Italian physicist, born at Como; professor of Physics at Pavia; made electrical discoveries which laid the foundation of what is called after him voltaic electricity; volt, the unit of electric motive force, being a term among sundry others in electric science similarly derived (1745‒1827).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Volsungs * Voltaic Electricity