The wonders of science The Italian physicist Alessandro Volta reading his conclusions on the electrical pile (voltaic pile) before the Académie des Sciences in Paris, in the presence of the First Consul Bonaparte, on 18 November 1800. Illustration from Les Merveilles de la science ou description populaire des inventions modernes written by Louis Figuier and published in 1867 by Furne, Jouvet et Cie.
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The wonders of science The Italian physicist Alessandro Volta reading his conclusions on the electrical pile (voltaic pile) before the Académie des Sciences in Paris, in the presence of the First Consul Bonaparte, on 18 November 1800. Illustration from Les Merveilles de la science ou description populaire des inventions modernes written by Louis Figuier and published in 1867 by Furne, Jouvet et Cie.
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