M0018847EI: Letter from Alessandro Volta to Joseph Banks, 20th March 1800

Photograph of two pages from a letter from Alessandro Volta to Joseph Banks, dated 20th March 1800, describing his experiments and discoveries in electricity . When the photograph was taken the original letter was held by the Royal Society. Related images: M0018846, M0018847-M0018847EK

November 1961

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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