Volta Laboratory and Bureau
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The Volta Laboratory and the Volta Bureau were created in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., by Alexander Graham Bell.
Volta Bureau in 2008
The Volta Laboratory which Bell used from 1885 to 1922
Side of the Volta Bureau in 2022
A rare 1884 laboratory photo showing the experimental recording of voice patterns by a photographic process (Smithsonian photo No. 44312-E)
Volta Prize
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The Volta Prize was originally established by Napoleon III during the Second French Empire in 1852 to honor Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist noted for developing the electric battery. This international prize awarded 50,000 French francs to extraordinary scientific discoveries related to electricity. The prize was instituted by the Ministry of Public Instruction with the personal funding of the French Emperor, the selection committee was usually constituted by members of the French Academy of Sciences.
Volta explains the principle of the "electric column" to Napoleon in 1801