The Royal Institution electric battery. Constructed in 1813, this series of copper and zinc plates was the most powerful battery of the time, built by British chemist William Wollaston for Humphry Davy, professor at the Royal Institution, London, England. From Les Merveilles de la Science, published 1870.

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