Jars placed in a wooden box connected by metal rods and used as a battery (a kind of Leyden jar with a very large surface area). Illustration from "Les Merveilles de la science ou description populaire des inventions modernes" written by Louis Figuier and published in 1867 by Furne, Jouvet et Cie.

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