The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 472
LEYDEN JAR, a device for ob-taining large charges of electricity.A simple one can be made by fillinga glass tumbler about two thirdsfull of shot and inserting a silverteaspoon (see Fig. i). The tum-bler must be held in one hand, whilethe teaspoon is presented to anElectric Machine, or an… … Fig. I. charged and he will get a shockequal to the sum of all the littlesparks that have passed to the jar.The jar should receive very fewsparks before its first discharge, toavoid giving the experimenter asevere shock ; but afterwards thenumber of sparks received may beincreased till the shock of…
Games · Sports · Card games
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
