The combs are always spraying onto the disk, continuously producing rotation, whereas with Franklin’s, this happens only when a thimble passes a Leyden jar. Also, there is always the same ...

[Colin] tells us it all started with [Benjamin Franklin]’s battery of capacitors. It was a bunch of leyden jars hooked together in series and there wasn’t even chemistry involved yet ...

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The Leyden jar is a dissectible capacitor made of aluminum and glass that poses an interesting question of where the stored charge resides. A series of experiments can be done showing that the charge ...