The English naturalist Joseph Banks reading to the Royal Society of London the letter from the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta announcing the discovery of the electrican battery the Voltaic pile). April 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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