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★ What is a Leyden Jar? What is the historical significance of the Leyden Jar?

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Answer 1

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Leyden Jars were the first device built that could actually store electricity. The fun fact about this invention was that it was discovered by accident.

So what happened was this German guy, don't remeber the name sorry, While experimenting with electricity, he touched his electric generator to a nail that was stuck into a medicine bottle through the cork. He later received a great shock when he touched the nail. The point is he actually didn't understand how it worked.

What he had discovered was that the nail and the jar were capable of storing electrons temporarily, today we call them as Capacitors.

It was employed just to conduct many early experiments in electricity besides, its discovery carried great significance in the study of electricity.

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Answer 2

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A Leyden jar (or Leiden jar) is an antique electrical component which stores a high-voltage electric charge (from an external source) between electrical conductors on the inside and outside of a glass jar. It typically consists of a glass jar with metal foil cemented to the inside and the outside surfaces, and a metal terminal projecting vertically through the jar lid to make contact with the inner foil. It was the original form of the capacitor. (also called condenser).

Early water-filled Leyden jar, consisting of a bottle with a metal spike through its stopper to make contact with the water.

Later more common type using metal foil, 1919

Its invention was a discovery made independently by German cleric Ewald Georg von Kleist on 11 October 1745 and by Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek of Leiden (Leyden) in 1745–1746. The invention was named after the city.

The Leyden jar was used to conduct many early experiments in electricity, and its discovery was of fundamental importance in the study of electrostatics. It was the first means of accumulating and preserving electric charge in large quantities that could be discharged at the experimenter's will, thus overcoming a significant limit to early research into electrical conduction. Leyden jars are still used in education to demonstrate the principles of electrostatics.

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