On left, the Trough battery, invented by the British chemist William Cruikshank in 1802 (an improvement on Volta's electric pile). On right, diagram of the pile developed between 1813 and 1815 by William Hyde Wollaston. 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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