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Common Pattern Large Leyden Jar

Inventory Number 96427


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.96427

Item type
Object
Dimensions
Diameter: 124mm Height: 369mm Weight: 924g
Inventory No
96427

Description

Large glass jar with tinfoil coating the interior and exterior. It has a wooden lid with three pieces of cork attached on the underside, and a copper alloy rod and ball on top of the lid connected to a thinner copper alloy rod inside of the jar.