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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LEYDEN JAR

First made in Leiden.
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PRONUNCIATION OF LEYDEN JAR

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LEYDEN JAR

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Leyden jar is a noun.
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WHAT DOES LEYDEN JAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Leyden jar

Leyden jar

A Leyden jar, or Leiden jar, is a device that "stores" static electricity between two electrodes on the inside and outside of a glass jar. It was the original form of a capacitor. It was invented independently by German cleric Ewald Georg von Kleist on 11 October 1745 and by Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek of Leiden in 1745–1746. The invention was named for 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 electricity. Previously, researchers had to resort to insulated conductors of large dimensions to store a charge. The Leyden jar provided a much more compact alternative. A famous use of the Leyden jar was Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment, which gave rise to the phrase "capture lightning in a bottle".

Definition of Leyden jar in the English dictionary

The definition of Leyden jar in the dictionary is an early type of capacitor consisting of a glass jar with the lower part of the inside and outside coated with tin foil.

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Synonyms and antonyms of Leyden jar in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Leyden jar» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LEYDEN JAR

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The translations of Leyden jar from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Leyden jar» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

莱顿瓶
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Leyden jar
570 millions of speakers

English

Leyden jar
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लिदेन जार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جرة ليدن
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лейденская банка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Leyden jar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লিডেন জার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bouteille de Leyde
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Leyden jar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Leidener Flasche
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ライデン瓶
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

레이덴 항아리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Leyden jar
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

chai Leyden
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

லேடன் ஜார்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लेडन जार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Leyden kavanozu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bottiglia di Leida
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Leyden jar
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

лейденська банку
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

borcan Leyden
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Leyden βάζο
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Leyden jar
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Leyden burk
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Leyden jar
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Leyden jar

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LEYDEN JAR»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Leyden jar

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LEYDEN JAR»

Discover the use of Leyden jar in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Leyden jar and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Medical and Bioengineering Aspects of Electrical Injuries
chine and the capacitor (Leyden jar), which could store the charge produced by a static-electricity machine, ushered in the quantitative study of electricity as well as providing the opportunity of delivering single stimuli of controlled intensity and ...
Raymond M. Fish, Leslie Alexander Geddes, Charles F. Babbs, 2003
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Elementary lessons in magnetism
THE LEYDEN JAR 79. Modern Form of the Leyden Jar— 80. Construction of the Leyden Jar— 81. How to charge a Leyden Jar— 82. How to discharge a Leyden Jar— 83. An Insulated Jar cannot be charged— 84. Leyden Jar with Movable ...
William Jerome Harrison, 1895
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Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental ...
ii. poor richard's leyden jar Franklin's teleological empiricism proved peculiarly effective when applied to the central apparatus of his physics, the Leyden jar.69 This was a glass jar filled with water into which (according to the prevailing theory ) ...
Jessica Riskin, 2002
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Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television
The innovation of the "Leyden jar" in 1745, however, proved a key moment in advancing electrical science into the modern era. Developed by Pieter van Musschen- broek in Holland, the Leyden jar allowed scientists to accumulate for the first ...
Jeffrey Sconce, 2000
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The Electrician
l'6 THE DISCHARGE OF A LEYDEN JAR.* lt is one of the great generalisations established by Faraday, that all electrical charge and discharge is essentially the charge and discharge of a Leyden jar. It is impossible to charge one body alone.
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Electricity in every-day life ...
... by Magnetization, 262 Lenz's Experiment on the Peltier Effect, 424 Lenz s Law, 540 Level or Potential, Electric, 78 Level or Potential, Electric, Difference ot, 78, 79 Level or Potential, Water, 78 Leyden Tar and Allamand, 73 Leyden Jar and ...
Edwin James Houston, 1905
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The Electrical Journal
95 108 118 127 134 95 16 20 27 31 34 38 42 40 48 (maxima) 336 THE DISCHARGE OF A LEYDEN JAR.* It is one of the great generalisations established by Faraday, that all electrical charge and discharge is essentially the charge and ...
‎1889
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin
William Watson in his Sequel had improved the Leyden jar by coating it with tinfoil. Both Franklin's and Watson's jars eliminated the water inside the jar and the moisture associated with it. Watson's jars weighed less than Franklin's and ...
Joseph A. Leo Lemay, 2006
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Magnetism and electricity
Describe and explain the original experiment which led to the discovery of the Leyden jar. 2. Describe a Leyden jar, and the method of discharging it. 3. You are required to make a small Leyden jar. How will you proceed? 4. Explain fully what  ...
Arthur William Poyser, 1901
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Bolt of Fate: Benjamin Franklin and His Electric Kite Hoax
... model displayed another curiosity: gold leaf lining the inside of the jar, a sure guarantee that those jars would be lost in the social upheavals to come. What there is to explain about the Leyden jar, even in our high- tech day, remains simple.
Tom Tucker, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LEYDEN JAR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Leyden jar is used in the context of the following news items.
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David Nightingale: Franklin's Electricity
Franklin also knew that European experimenters had learned how to store that charge in a jar -- the so-called Leyden jar, devised in the Dutch ... «WAMC, Jun 15»
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Project BEACON now called LYDEN
The name is derived from the Leyden jar Benjamin Franklin used in a science experiment to capture electricity and reflects a key goal, said ... «The Tennessean, Jun 15»
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Cured with sparks: a history of electrotherapy for functional …
The Leyden Jar (Figure 2, Figure 3) was invented in 1745-6: a portable device for storing and discharging sparks. The earliest descriptions of ... «OUPblog, May 15»
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Science, glass intertwine as Pyrex tribute opens GlassFest
... and each piece of it represents a scientific discovery that was based on glass, like Galileo's telescope and the Leyden jar,” Ford said. Corning ... «Corning Leader, May 15»
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A Thoughtful Look at Lightning
Early in the 18th, though, the first Leyden jar was fabricated at a university in Holland. It was the earliest device in which electricity could be ... «Radio World, Apr 15»
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Happy April Fools' Day! 5 Historical Pranksters
At Oxford, the budding Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a chemistry student, connected a Leyden jar (an old time capacitor that Franklin ... «Biography, Apr 15»
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Adventures in transcranial direct-current stimulation.
The invention, in 1745, of the Leyden jar—a device to store static electricity—enabled many new experiments in electrotherapy, not all of them ... «The New Yorker, Mar 15»
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Acura to launch new ILX ad during AFC game
The ILX spot “depicts an Acura engineer trekking into the wild during a driving rain storm to capture lightning in a Leyden Jar, a container that ... «Automotive News, Jan 15»
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The Shocking Story of Electric Fish
Eventually, an invention called the Leyden jar would replace electric animal lab instruments. The new technology was a whole lot easier to care ... «Slate Magazine, Jan 15»
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Michael Faraday: Working-Class Hero
... however, remained a scientific curiosity and parlor game because it could only be stored as static electricity, in a device called a Leyden jar, ... «Barron's, Sep 14»

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