LRI4632304 Alessandro (Alexandre) Volta (1745-1827) presented in 1801 to consul Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) at the Institut national de France the results of his experiments which enabled him to invent the electric battery Derriere Napoleon, by the French scientists of the academy of Sciences. Fresco by Gaspero Martellini (1785-1857) after a cardboard Nicola Cianfanelli (1793 -1848) Florence, Tribuna Galileiana Museum of Physics and Natural Sciences by Cianfanelli, Nicola (1793-1848); Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, Italy; (add.info.: Alessandro (Alexandre) Volta (1745-1827) presented in 1801 to consul Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) at the Institut national de France the results of his experiments which enabled him to invent the electric battery Derriere Napoleon, by the French scientists of the academy of Sciences. Fresco by Gaspero Martellini (1785-1857) after a cardboard Nicola Cianfanelli (1793 -1848) Florence, Tribuna Galileiana Museum of Physics and Natural Sciences); Luisa Ricciarini; Italian, out of copyright.