Discovery of the Leyden jar In 1745 Ewald Georg von Kleist in Pomerania, Germany tried to store electricity in alcohol thinking that he could lead the electricity along a wire from the friction ...

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When Benjamin Franklin performed his kite experiment in the midst of an electrical thunderstorm and lived for many more years to tell the tale, the device he had at hand to store electric charge was ...

The Leyden jar is a dissectible capacitor made of aluminum and glass that poses an interesting question of where the stored charge resides. A series of experiments can be done showing that the charge ...

A leyden jar is basically just a simple home made capacitor. We’ve shown you how to make them before. This, however, is how you make a ridiculously large one. [Nickademuss] used a five gallon ...

"Looking back to the 18th century, the time of Franklin and Cavendish, researchers were literally shocking themselves with Leyden jars and electric fish, out of sheer curiosity, little aware that ...

Kaylee Lucas, an eighth grader at Fairland Middle School, won first place for Best Overall Project with "Static Electricity and a Leyden Jar." "My question I was trying to answer was, 'What ...

The main course for the evening was roast turkey – which Franklin’s guests watched him electrocute with a Leyden jar (an early version of a capacitor, made with a glass jar and some metal ...

On this day in history, June 10, 1752, Benjamin Franklin reportedly flew a kite during a thunderstorm, with the goal of collecting ambient electrical charge in a Leyden jar — a container that ...