M0018847EG: Letter from Alessandro Volta to Joseph Banks, 20th March 1800

Date:
November 1961
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/167/67
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M0018847EG: Letter from Alessandro Volta to Joseph Banks, 20th March 1800. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

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

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November 1961

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

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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