leyden jar in English
noun
1
an early form of capacitor consisting of a glass jar with layers of metal foil on the outside and inside.
The Leyden jar is a primitive capacitor, first used for containing electrical spirits and demons by Rabbi Levi of Prague in the sixteenth century.
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1. Battery of Leyden Jar "capacitors" linked together (Image courtesy of Alvinrune of Wikimedia Commons)
2. Jan Rudolph Deiman and Adriaan Paets van Troostwijk used, in 1789, an electrostatic machine to make electricity which was discharged on gold electrodes in a Leyden jar with water.
3. Boulton worked with Franklin in efforts to contain electricity within a Leyden jar, and when the printer needed new glass for his "glassychord" (a mechanised version of musical glasses) he obtained it from Boulton.