# #Mon Aug 09 12:08:41 CEST 2010 Text__0Ow8IKOdEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_title=Leyden Jar Text__0Ow8IKOdEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_text=

Oldest device for storing electricity, described for the first time in 1745. The initially inexplicable amplification of the impact of an electric discharge achieved by means of the storage in the Leyden jar is met with much astonishment in the eighteenth century.