Definitions for "Leyden jar"
A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity. It is coated with tin foil, within and without, nearly to its top, and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the inner coating, for the purpose of charging it with electricity. It is so named from having been invented in Leyden, Holland.
an electrostatic capacitor of historical interest
a device that early experimenters used to help build and store electric energy
Keywords:  storage, first, charge, devices, one
One of the first charge-storage devices.