Leyden Jar Invented
October 11, 1745
Ewald von Kleist in Pomerania, and independently Pieter van Musschenbroek at Leyden, found that electricity could be stored in a glass jar with metal foils. Musschenbroek's first discharge nearly killed him: I would not take a second shock for the crown of France. The world's first capacitor had arrived in parlor science.
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Also in 1745 (4 other events on record)
- Bonnie Prince Charlie Lands in Scotland · Europe · War
- Louisbourg Falls to New Englanders · North America · War
- Dupleix's Carnatic Gambit · South Asia · War
- Battle of Fontenoy · Europe · War
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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