Volta pistol, possibly late 18th Century.
ITALY - JANUARY 25: This instrument was invented by Count Alessandro Anastasio Volta (1745-1827), the Italian physicist and inventor of the voltaic pile, an early battery. A Volta pistol is a pistol-shaped device that is filled with an explosive mixture of gases (hydrogen and air or oxygen for example) and closed with a cork. An electrical discharge is then passed across a small spark gap inside the pistol, using electrodes passing through the barrel. The spark ignites the mixture and shoots a cork out of the end of the pistol. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)
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