Discharge of the Leyden jar, the earliest capacitor, developed by the Dutch physicist Pieter van Musschenbroek in 1746. 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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