In 1880, the French government awarded Bell the Volta Prize of 50, 000 francs ( approximately US $ 10, 000 at that time, about $ in current dollars ) for the invention of the telephone, which he used to found the Volta Laboratory, along with Sumner Tainter and Bell's cousin Chichester Bell.

:* Volta Prize, an award established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1801 – 1802, and awarded by the French government for scientific achievement in electricity.

* 1958 – French Upper Volta gains self-government from France, becomes the Republic of Upper Volta, and joins the French Community.

* Republic Day, the day when Upper Volta became an autonomous republic in the French Community in 1958.

Italy | Italian physicist Alessandro Volta showing his " Battery ( electricity ) | battery " to France | French emperor Napoleon I of France | Napoleon Bonaparte in the early 19th century.

* 1957 – Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held.

* 1932 – The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.

In 1919, certain provinces from Côte d ' Ivoire were united into French Upper Volta in the French West Africa federation.

After World War II, the Mossi actively pressured the French for separate territorial status and on September 4, 1947, Upper Volta became a French West African territory again in its own right.

Upper Volta became an autonomous republic in the French community on December 11, 1958.

The Republic of Upper Volta () was established on December 11, 1958, as a self-governing colony within the French Community.

Before attaining autonomy it had been French Upper Volta and part of the French Union.

Agreements with Liberia in 1892 and with Britain in 1893 determined the eastern and western boundaries of the colony, but the northern boundary was not fixed until 1947 because of efforts by the French government to attach parts of Upper Volta ( present-day Burkina Faso ) and French Sudan ( present-day Mali ) to Côte d ' Ivoire for economic and administrative reasons.

Because the population of Côte d ' Ivoire was insufficient to meet the labor demand on French plantations and forests, which were among the greatest users of labor in French West Africa, the French recruited large numbers of workers from Upper Volta to work in Côte d ' Ivoire.

The river gave its name to French Upper Volta and then the Republic of Upper Volta before that country was renamed Burkina Faso in 1984.

Thus, 1745 corresponded to the invention of the `` Leiden '' jar by Kleist, 1764 that of the electrophorus by Wilcke, 1782 produced the condenser of Volta, and 1801 the voltaic pile.

In recognition of his contribution to the creation of modern electrical science, an international convention signed in 1881 established the ampere as a standard unit of electrical measurement, along with the coulomb, volt, ohm, and watt, which are named, respectively, after Ampère ’ s contemporaries Charles-Augustin de Coulomb of France, Alessandro Volta of Italy, Georg Ohm of Germany, and James Watt of Scotland.

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta ( 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827 ) was an Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s.

Volta was born in Como, Italy on 18 February 1745.

In the years between 1776 – 78, Volta studied the chemistry of gases.

Volta also studied what we now call electrical capacitance, developing separate means to study both electrical potential ( V ) and charge ( Q ), and discovering that for a given object, they are proportional.

In 1794, Volta married an aristocratic lady also from Como, Teresa Peregrini, with whom he raised three sons: Giovanni, Flaminio and Zanino.

Volta realized that the frog's leg served as both a conductor of electricity ( we would now call it an electrolyte ) and as a detector of electricity.

Volta had determined that the most effective pair of dissimilar metals to produce electricity was zinc and silver.

In announcing his discovery of the pile, Volta paid tribute to the influences of William Nicholson, Tiberius Cavallo and Abraham Bennet.

The battery made by Volta is credited as the first electrochemical cell.

In honor of his work, Volta was made a count by Napoleon in 1801.

* 1960 – Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.

* 1984 – The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.

After World War II, Brazil developed a steel mill at Volta Redonda, in Rio de Janeiro State, and quickly became the largest steel producer in Latin America.

Burkina Faso ( formerly Upper Volta ) is a landlocked Sahel country that shares borders with six nations.

The Black Volta is one of the country's only two rivers which flow year-round, the other being the Komoé, which flows to the southwest.

In 1966 a military coup deposed the first president of Upper Volta, Maurice Yaméogo, suspended the constitution, dissolved the National Assembly, and placed Lieutenant Colonel Sangoulé Lamizana at the head of a government of senior army officers.

The Air Force was founded in 1964 as the Escadrille de la République de Haute-Volta ( EHV ) or the Republic of Upper Volta Air Squadron, a subordinate unit of the Army.

Bell's 1893 Volta Bureau building in Washington, D. C.

The Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory, also variously known as the Volta Bureau, the Bell Carriage House, the Bell Laboratory and the Volta Laboratory, was created in Washington, D. C. by Alexander Graham Bell.

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Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory made several improvements in the 1880s, including the use of wax-coated cardboard cylinders, and a cutting stylus that moved from side to side in a " zig zag " pattern across the record.

An early experimental non-magnetic tape recorder patented in 1886 by Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory.

The earliest known audio tape recorder was a non-magnetic, non-electric version invented by Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory and patented in 1886 ().

In 1880 Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Charles Sumner Tainter created the Photophone, at Bell's newly established Volta Laboratory in Washington, DC.

* The Volta Laboratory and Bureau, created by Alexander Graham Bell as his first formal research laboratory, the profits from which were used to create a research and educational institution devoted to serving the deaf, which operates today as the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, also known as the ' AG Bell '.

The Dictaphone's earliest development occurred at the Volta Laboratory established by Alexander Graham Bell in Washington, D. C. in 1881.

* 19 February 1880: The photophone, also known as a radiophone, is invented jointly by Alexander Graham Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter at Bell's Volta Laboratory.

* Volta Laboratory and Bureau, Alexander Graham Bell's research laboratory in Washington, D. C.

* Volta Laboratory and Bureau, research and philanthropic institutions created by Alexander Graham Bell in 1880 and 1887 respectively

The Graphophone was the name and trademark of an improved version of the phonograph invented at the Volta Laboratory established by Alexander Graham Bell in Washington, D. C.

These improvements were invented by Alexander Bell's cousin Chester Bell, a chemist, and Charles Sumner Tainter, an optical instrument maker, at Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory in Washington, D. C. Hubbard and Chester Bell approached Edison about combining their interests, but Edison refused, resulting in the Volta Laboratory Association merging the shares of their Volta Graphophone Company with the company that later evolved into Columbia Records in 1886.