“...aria infiammabile nativa delle paludi...”_拉斯维加斯赌城

Wetlands in History
2025-11-12T10:12:13+00:00
Universit?t Augsburg

Using gases from wetlands to power a gun? In the 18th century, that was planned and realized by the Italian naturalist Alessandro Volta. Volta’s pistol uses methane (he called it “aria infiammabile nativa delle paludi”), an inflammable gas, which he discovered in the air in wetlands, at this time more generally referred to under the name of “swamps”.