A city in the western Netherlands; residence of the Pilgrim Fathers for 11 years before they sailed for America in 1620
Synonyms:
leiden
Leyden Sentence Examples
His transmitter consists of a nearly closed oscillating circuit comprising a condenser or battery of Leyden jars, a spark gap, and the primary coil of an oscillation transformer consisting of one turn of thick wire wound on a wooden frame.
The study of electricity he took up in 1746 when he first saw a Leyden jar, in the manipulation of which he became expert and which he improved by the use of granulated lead in the place of water for the interior armatures; he recognized that condensation is due to the dielectric and not to the metal coatings.
Specimens of Fowler's verses were published in 1803 by John Leyden in his Scottish Descriptive Poems. Fowler contributed a prefatory sonnet to James VI.'s Furies; and James, in return, commended, in verse, Fowler's Triumphs.
For this purpose a small Leyden jar is connected as usual.
This transfer will take place because the inner coatings of the Leyden jars have greater capacity with respect to the earth than the balls.