IL Pila Voltaica ha stabilito il principio di sommare le tensioni collegando celle elettrochimiche in serie. Ogni coppia zinco-rame, o cella, genera una caratteristica forza elettromotrice (Campo elettromagnetico) of approximately 0.76 volts. By physically stacking these cells, Volta demonstrated that the total voltage across the pile is the sum of the individual EMFs of each cell, as described by [latex]V_{total} = n \times V_{cell}[/latex].





