M0018847EK: Letter from Alessandro Volta to Joseph Banks, 20th March 1800

Date:
November 1961
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/167/71
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M0018847EK: Letter from Alessandro Volta to Joseph Banks, 20th March 1800. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Photograph of the final page of 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-M0018847EJ

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November 1961

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1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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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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