Electrical instruments Surviving artifact

E. Leybold’s four-jar Leyden battery

c. 1880

Speculative use · Tartarian imagining

Imagine a Tartarian academy collecting a visible reserve of electrical charge inside a cabinet of glass jars.

An imagined use within Tartarian lore; its historic use is not established by this interpretation.

Where it survives

Smithsonian National Museum of American History collection

Washington, D.C., United States

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Collection reference: EM.330583 / nmah_713331

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