. English: Drawing of a Leyden jar being safely discharged with a discharger, from an 1875 medical book. The discharger is a U shaped piece of wire with metal balls on each end. The Leyden jar contains a powerful charge of static electricity, stored on the inner and outer metal foil coatings. If a person touched the central electrode while holding the outer foil coating, he could receive a dangerous shock. The discharger was touched to the outer foil coating and the other arm was brought near the central electrode, and a spark would jump between the two metal balls, allowing charge to flow fro
. English: Drawing of a Leyden jar being safely discharged with a discharger, from an 1875 medical book. The discharger is a U shaped piece of wire with metal balls on each end. The Leyden jar contains a powerful charge of static electricity, stored on the inner and outer metal foil coatings. If a person touched the central electrode while holding the outer foil coating, he could receive a dangerous shock. The discharger was touched to the outer foil coating and the other arm was brought near the central electrode, and a spark would jump between the two metal balls, allowing charge to flow from one foil coating to the other. 1875. Unknown 370 Leyden jar being discharged
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