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“Two young women with the symbols of manual labor (a shuttlecock and a washboard) place a wreath around the cameo of Alessandro Volta (1754-1827), to indicate their gratefulness for his electricity that liberates them from drudgery. The poster is for an exhibition of electrical products being held in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Volta, the inventor of an instrument for measuring electricity (voltmeter), and the man who defined a single unit of it, a volt, as “the electron drive force which, when applied to the conductor with the resistance of one ohm, produces a current of one ampere.” That so impressed Napoleon that he made him a count as well as a senator of Lombardy” (Rennert PAI-XXXVI, 353)
The poster advertises an exhibition celebrating the centennial of the invention of the electric battery by Volta
Details
Artists:
Adolph Hohenstein
Origin:
France
Circa:
1899
Printer:
Chaix - Paris
Size:
11.5'' x 15.5''
ID:
#MA160
Condition:
Very Good
Linen Backed:
No
Size
Unit
Inches
Centimeters
Width
11.5
29.21
Height
15.5
39.37
Depth
0.1
0.25
Details
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