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Leyden|ˈlaɪdən|
The name of a city in Holland, used in the names of certain electrical apparatus, invented there in 1745–6: Leyden jar (formerly Leyden phial or Leyden bottle), an electrical condenser consisting of a glass bottle coated inside and outside with tinfoil to within a certain distance of its mouth, and having a brass rod surmounted by a knob passing through the cork, and communicating with the internal armature. Also Leyden battery, a battery consisting of a number of Leyden jars.
1755Franklin Lett. etc. Wks. 1840 V. 348, I taught him..to charge the Leyden phial, and some other experiments. 1762Ibid. 380 A Leyden bottle, charged and then sealed hermetically. 1812Sir H. Davy Chem. Philos. 133 A stratum of air is charged in the same manner as a glass bottle..is charged in the Leyden experiment. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 29 She was..like a Leyden jar always ready to be let off. 1840Carlyle Heroes (1858) 191 As if it were a poor dead thing, to be bottled up in Leyden jars, and sold over counters. 1855Mayne Expos. Lex., Leyden Battery, term for a number of Leyden jars, connected externally by being placed on tinfoil, or other good conductor. |