Today, when I was sitting outside I was thinking about how far static electricity has come since I discovered it. Then I had a flash back…It all started August 20th, 1778 when I was very curious to study other information about electricity. When I became a professor at University of Pavia, I applied my theory of atmospheric electricity to the study of the capacity of isolated conductors. For the first time I used the concept of electric tension to understand the intensive properties of electricity. I discovered tension as the electric fluid's tendency expanded. When I was a professor at Pavia that is where I gained most of my knowledge. When I was there I invented the voltaic pile, it was one of my first inventions. The voltaic pile was to prove that electricity did not come from the animal tissue but was generated by the contact of different metals in a moist environment. After I made this invention all the pieces came together and I truly understood how electricity worked. All the people before me who tried were on the right track about electricity but not fully. My goal was to prove them all wrong and be better than all of them. After I came back from my flash back, I said to myself wow I did all this stuff and so much more.