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Description: | Glass jar with wooden lid; makers stamp on lid along with 'PATENT'; brass shaft extends through lid and terminates in six individual wires; jar painted with conducting paint on both inside and outside, halfway up; adjustable metal ring sits round jar. A leyden jar is a form of electric condenser, it is a conducting surface seperated from another conducting surface by means of an insulating material, the outer surface being earthed. The initial charge is produced by means of a frictional machine which is wired to the jar | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDNP University of Aberdeen, Natural Philosophy Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1897-1940 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Creator: | Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co Ltd. | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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