Why does current flow the opposite way from the electrons?

Re:Why does current flow the opposite way from the electrons? by ArnoVW on Saturday June 22, 2024 @11:27AM (#40759739)

Or ‘pile’ in French, which is homonym for ‘stack’ because a battery is a stack of alternating materials.

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Re:Why does current flow the opposite way from the electrons? by lloeki on Saturday June 22, 2024 @02:53PM (#40761228)

interestingly "accu" in french is also used, but only for rechargeable batteries.

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Re:Why does current flow the opposite way from the electrons? by mgoetzke on Monday June 24, 2024 @06:13AM (#40774208)

same in german "Akku" can re-charge

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Re:Why does current flow the opposite way from the electrons? by catlikesshrimp on Saturday June 22, 2024 @03:15PM (#40761382)

Is that official? In spanish, decades ago, the word for battery was "Pila"

"Pila" is a heap of countable physical units, either stacked or disordered. But pila is commonly a fixture for liquids, like septic tank is pila séptica

And batteries were mostly lead-acid. Hence, a pile for/of acid.

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Re:Why does current flow the opposite way from the electrons? by murderfs on Sunday June 23, 2024 @08:18PM (#40771737)

I was curious and tried to find out what word Volta used when publishing his discovery, and it looks like he just used "batterie" in his letter (written in French) to the Royal Society: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstl.1800.001...

I was unable to find out who coined "Voltaic pile" after a few minutes of Googling.

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