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History of Science Museum

Common Pattern Leyden Jar

Inventory Number 81699


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.81699

Item type
Object
Dimensions
Diameter: 119mm Height: 232mm Weight: 1546g
Inventory No
81699

Description

Large glass jar with tinfoil coating the interior and exterior. It has a wooden lid with a metal rod and ball on top of the lid connected to a thinner metal rod and copper alloy chain inside of the jar.