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.

Volta Redonda is the name of a city in the Rio de Janeiro state of Brazil with 182. 81 km² of area, located from 350m to 707m from the sea level ( 22º31 ' 23 " S, 44º06 ' 15 " W ) and with a population of 259, 811 inhabitants ( estimated in 2009 ).

Situated in Volta Redonda is Companhia Siderurgica Nacional ( CSN ), Latin America's largest steel producer.

Due to this, Volta Redonda is worldly known as Cidade do Aço ( which is Portuguese for Steel City ).

Economical center of South Fluminense region, Volta Redonda is a strategic area, close to major cities-pole of other regional states, such as Juiz de Fora ( 190 kilometers ) and Sao Jose dos Campos ( 220 kilometers ).

In 1744, the first tamers named the curious curve of the Paraíba do Sul river of " Volta Redonda ".

With these facts, in 1875, the village of Santo Antonio de Volta Redonda started to have great impulse, but with the freedom of slaves in 1888, the decay of the Vale do Paraíba became visible, destroying the agriculture, that would not recover more satisfactorily.

This situation would be reverted in 1941, when the cycle of industrialization of Volta Redonda began.

Laborers from diverse regions of the country came to Volta Redonda to work in the mill.

A heavily subsidized symbol of national pride, the Volta Redonda mill embodied the import substitution industrial policies that prevailed in Latin American economies from World War II until the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s.

Volta Redonda Futebol Clube is the most important football club of the city, playing its home matches at Estádio Raulino de Oliveira, which is also located in the city downtown.

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

At the 5th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival in 2007, Byrne was presented with the first of the newly created Volta awards, for lifetime achievement in acting.

Stewart ( 1989 ) removed Kru, Ijaw, and Volta – Niger ( East Kwa ), but kept the Ghana – Togo Mountain and Lagoon languages, as well as adding a few obscure, newly described languages.

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

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.

File: Alessandro Volta. jpeg | Alessandro Volta ( 1745-1827 ): built the first electric battery ( the voltaic pile ) in the 19th century, did substantial work with electric currents, namesake of the unit of electric potential: the volt ( V )

The voltaic pile, invented by Alessandro Volta in 1800, was the first electric battery.

The volt is named in honor of the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta ( 1745 – 1827 ), who invented the voltaic pile, possibly the first chemical battery.

* March 20 – Alessandro Volta describes his new invention, the voltaic pile, the first chemical battery, in a letter to the Royal Society.

Alessandro Volta, a professor of physics in Pavia, was among the first scientists who repeated and checked Galvani ’ s experiments.

Thus, owing to an argument between the two in regard to the source or cause of the electricity, Volta built the first battery in order to specifically disprove his associate's theory.

* James Joyce opens the Volta, the first cinema in Dublin.

* 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 '.

* 1800-The Voltaic pile was the first modern electric battery, invented by Alessandro Volta, which led to later inventions like the telegraph.

* In 1997 Villa Volta, as the first ' new style ' madhouse in the world, receives the Thea Attraction Award.

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Volta was the inventor of the voltaic pile, the first electrical battery.

* 1959-The Republic of Upper Volta issues its first stamps.

When the French Upper Volta was first abolished in 1933 ( it was reestablished in 1947 ), French Sudan gained some of its provinces.

In 2001, Beloki also finished first overall in the Volta a Catalunya.

Maurice Yaméogo ( December 31, 1921 – September 9, 1993 ) was the first President of the Republic of Upper Volta, now called Burkina Faso.

" Cover Me " and " You've Been Flirting Again " are missing, although " You've Been Flirting Again " appears on ' Homogenic Live ' and " Cover Me " only received its first performances during the 2007-2008 Volta Tour.

When it was first proposed by Joseph Greenberg ( 1963 ) it included the Volta – Niger languages ( as West Benue – Congo ); the boundary with those languages and with Kwa has been repeatedly debated.

Villa Volta at the Efteling theme park is the first park to have it.

* Alessandro Volta, scientist, developer of the first electric cell