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Trivia Time: the stacks of time and the fire of 1899

As I mentioned in previous posts, the batteries of Volta exposed to the toilet in the museum are not original ones.

Manufactures true, those created by Alessandro Volta, were destroyed in a fire in Como in 1899, just at the 'Exhibition for the centenary of the stack, ironically. It was important that combined exposure of the main Italian industrial and the world, as well as recent inventions in the presence of the great names of science of the time. Inaugurating the event even attended King Umberto I.

Saturday, July 8, fifty days after the inauguration, "the Fairy White" (as was called the Exhibition) was completely devoured by a violent and sudden fire, probably caused by a short circ uito. In 45 minutes was reduced to a huge pile of smoking rubble. The fire broke out at 9.45 am and 10.30 am it was all ash and blackened rubble and twisted iron. At eleven the large fire was almost extinguished.

little that was left was picked up in a room of Museum "Paolo Giovio" and under the guidance of contractors and consultants experts, it came to compose the series of instruments to be destroyed alongside the original ones and personal memories of Alessandro Volta, while in a kiosk in the new position were put on display photographs, memorabilia and copies of other waste recovered from the fire.

Later, the relics "survivors" and the reconstructions were placed in Volta Temple, opened in 1928.