Alessandro Volta and the electric battery.
Contributors: Volta, Alessandro, 1745-1827.
Series: Immortals of science
Publisher: F. Watts
Published: 1964
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
Subjects: Volta, Alessandro, 1745-1827.
Notes: Also available in digital form on the Burndy Library Web site (Massachusettes Institute of Technology).
Includes a translation (p. 111-131) of Volta's "On the electricity excited by the mere contact of conducting substances of different kinds," originally written in French with English title. First published in Royal Society of London, Philosophical transactions, 1800, pt. 2.