This issue presents a paper by Antonio Savini, Emeritus Professor at the University of Pavia, Italy, and Chair of the History activity Committee of the IEEE Italy Section. The paper originated at the time that was getting close to the anniversary of the discovery of thermoelectricity, credited to Thomas Johan Seebeck, Estonian scientist, in 1821. What is less widely known is that such credit is incorrect, since it has been recently proven that thermoelectricity was indeed first observed and reported by Alessandro Volta in 1787 [1] (based on previous investigations in Italian, dating to 2005). In this paper, Antonio Savini makes this point for the benefit of our wide community.
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