Leyden jar

Leyden Jar

Leyden jar, device for storing static electricity, discovered accidentally and investigated by the Dutch physicist Pieter van Musschenbroek of the University of Leiden in 1746, and independently by the German inventor Ewald Georg von Kleist in 1745.

Details

Category:
Electricity and Magnetism
Object Number:
YINH351
type:
jar

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