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IN this age of electricity it is difficult to realise that only a hundred years have elapsed since the first electric current was produced by chemical means. The birthplace of Alessandro Volta has paid a fitting tribute to the pioneer of electrical science by holding an exhibition in commemoration of the discovery of the pile which bears the name of its inventor.
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BRYAN, G. The Volta Centenary Exhibition at Como. Nature 60, 181–182 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060181a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/060181a0
