Invention of the Leyden Jar: How a Jar of Water Shocked Thousands

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I read an accurate account of Franklin's kite experiment. It led me to Leyden jars. Gonna check out your whole series. Well done :D

Hello Kathy, i just want to thank you for your great effort sharing these videos. It is awesome and so reasonable to learn a topic with its history and you are the best at explaining this. i am so excited to watch every one of these videos. Please keep up doing these great videos. Greetings from Turkey ❤💡

Try as I might, most things involving electricity seem to elude me. It just doesn’t stick.

How tall are you?

Mussenbrock, I feel the same way about Quantum mechanics.

Great video Kathy. :)

I wonder if those science experiments can also be done with rats. I mean with rats as the scientists who deliberately give themselves electrical shocks!

Hopeless. Pieter van Musschenbroek was a professor on the university of Leiden. He developed the so-called 'Leyden bottle' together with Cunaeus in 1692. Leiden is a town in the Netherlands not in Germany!

Love your videos!

buckle your seatbelts here Fascination Comes On Steroids

This was great!

maybe the rich used them for difribulators or starting fires not just for entertainment otherwise why would they have so many in one stately home?

As if I’ve just found this channel

Because it make you happy I hit the like button ⚡🧲🤣.

Your fun and informative videos are very entertaining. Wish school was as fun as you make learning.

So thorough and informing, the most indepth one I've seen on the subject. Please never stop, the world needs more people like you. Your passion for physics, facts, history and detail is entraining and something we should all internalize, as these things are most important to navigate our future

Now I think the ‘Bagdad Battery’ was an early Leyden Jar.

Your videos are just wonderful. I can't stop watching them, one by one... You mesmerize me with a subject that I usually didn't like much, and you make me study English at the same time... Thank you !!!

My favorite possession as a kid was a small VandeGraaf generator, shamelessly marketed as an Atom Smasher by Lafayette Electronics. On a crisp day, it could throw a 2-inch spark, hitting my hand with a sharp but mild snap.

I can't remember where I read about Leyden jars,

Great videos! However, please note that Pieter van Musschenbroek was Dutch and Leiden (Leyden) was/is in the Netherlands

Interesting that the Leyden Jar is called that. We call it "de Leidse Fles", the Bottle from Leiden. Much more of a bottle than a jar. (cue Captain Reynolds from Casablanca, "I'm shocked! Shocked...!")

So happy to have found and subscribed to your channel!

It sounds like They were doing Thier version of Us sticking 9V batteries on Our tongues...😅...although quite a bit more intense!!

Then later comes Edison, Tesla, Maxwell, and others who improved our understanding of electricity all the way down to the proton and electron. In college physics today you learn how to solve the Maxwell equations...

If you are electrocuted you are DEAD !

What a disgusting presentation!

Ewald Georg was one of Prussia's von Kleist family.

The von Kleists include military men (quite a number of field marshals), literary men, and philosophers. At times the same von Kleist is all three.

During the Nazi Era two von Kleists were closely involved in the Hitler assassination plot and one paid the price.

Another field Marshall von Kleist was notably humane towards during WWII's Russian campaign. He was a humanist. After the war the Russians wanted him turned over for alienating Russians from Russia by being such a nice guy. Only the Russians could dream up such horrors. Said von Kleist died in Russia.

They're getting harder to find, but I had thought of collecting about 50 of the Cathode Ray Tubes from clunky old TV sets to make a 1 Million volt capacitor. Each one can easily hold 20,000 volts with very high capacitance.
I have all sorts of high voltage experiments that would be very expensive to do otherwise. It would take up a lot of room though.
Guess I'll build my lair by the lagoon 😂

Here something odd: water has a relative dielectric constant of about 81. Mica is only 4 and the other dielectric materials are about this range.
So why water not used in the making of capacitors? 🤔
You turn the water into a gel very easily to, so that makes it easier to work with. I used these silica crystals that I bought. They're food safe too.

Leiden (misspelled as Leyden) is a city in the Netherlands not Germany. And I love your video's. Can you give some information on scientific background?

Leyden is not in Germany, it's a dutch city between Rotterdam and Amsterdam

Franklin didn't "discover" electricity. We knew about it but just didn't understand it at the time. What Franklin did do was study it, learned where it came from, and figured out how to control it enough to eliminate lightning strikes from damaging buildings. Another big surprise, he did not fly that kite in a rainstorm. He flew it before an approaching storm to prove that electricity came from the air and that he could collect and guide it.

Mussehenbroek bears an uncanny resemblance to J S Bach. But with a sense of humour.

Kathy,
This is too late for this video but it's Andreas Cuneus not Cuneaus. (Eau triphthong is French not German as my last name attests to.)

Leyden = Leiden in the Netherlands, not In Germany. Just a minor detail in this wonderful story.

Leyden is in Nederland .

Hard to pronounce names? Yes, if you just speak one language they probably are.

I have a 240vac fan motor that runs full strength on just one of the two phases, i.e., it runs on 120 vac. How can this be. What am I missing here.
And I used to think that I understood basic home electrical wiring. I can really sympathize with Musschenbroek.

Leyden=Leiden, a city in The Netherlands, not germany.

Wow, he killed people with electricity in large groups at a time?! How TERRIBLE! Also sad that you reported it like it wasn't even a big deal.

As far as I know the Leyden Jar is named after Leiden in the Netherlands, not Germany, ( Leyden being the contemporary spelling) where Musschenbroek was born and university educated. Musschenbroek did work in Germany but that was at the university of Duisburg before he returned to the Netherlands to work at the university of Utrecht.

adrenalin junkies... and the days of the Ether Frolics..

Kathy, your videos are amazing. I’ve been jumping through your channel for the last week and have loved every video you’ve put out. I very much wish my university had a History of Electricity course as part of the EE curriculum.

Reminds me of the Bagdad batteries.

Nice video, but two small things to keep in mind: Leyden, Germany is in fact Leiden (or Leyden in old spelling), The Netherlands. Also, once you get electrocuted, you're dead. I don't think everyone you say who was electrocuted, was actually electrocuted.

Love this series of videos. Thank you. X

Masochistic adrenaline junkies?
Seems like not a lot has changed...