(3) A few years later, one of the founders of electrical science, Georg Wilhelm Lichtenberg (1743-1799) noted that the structure of the Ark of the Covenant is similar to the Leyden jar. (4)

Electricity was generated in a Leyden jar and transmitted to a brass ball on the roof, and then down a conductor to the ground.

The physics of electricity evolved in tandem with improvements to the original jar accumulator, which was soon called the Leyden jar after the city where it was invented.

did not join the race to produce electrical instruments following the discovery of the Leyden jar; George Jr.

Static electricity batteries such as the Leyden jar had provided only sudden electric pulses during discharge.

An Italian anatomist, Luigi Galvani (1737-1798), noticed in 1780 that the muscles of dissected frog legs twitched wildly when a spark from a Leyden jar struck them.

Lightning struck the kite and passed down the string to a metal key connected by metal wire to a Leyden jar, a device for storing static e

Because Musschenbroek popularized the device and because he worked at the University of Leyden in the Netherlands, the electricity-storing device came to be called a Leyden jar. It was at once made use of by other experimenters.

The Leyden jar (see 1745) had become a favorite plaything of many scientists.

Experimenters in 1745 were (literally) shocked to learn that electricity could be stored in what came to be called a Leyden jar. In 1752 Benjamin Franklin flew a kite in a thunderstorm in a successful attempt to prove that natural electricity and the electricity generated in a Leyden jar were one and the same.

Those early, simple spark gap transmitters have an ancestry that can be traced back to the electrical machines and Leyden jars that 18th-century experimenters used to astound their spectators.