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Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta

Stipple engraving by L Rados, 1828, after R Focosi. Volta is shown in his laboratory. A voltaic pile is in the background on the right. (Courtesy of the Wellcome Collection, London, UK. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International [CC BY 4.0] license, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Edited by Dr. Douglas J Lanska.)