The Leyden Jar

A man made a power generator and could do experiments with electricity but the generator had to keep the generator running the whole time. This was inconvenient so they immediately liked the leyden jar. A man named leyden thought of electricity as a fluid that he could hold in a jar. So he made a jar to do that. The leyden jar is a jar that has a layer of tinfoil on the inside and outside. It is filled to about halfway with alcohol and has a chain draped across the bottom and the other end attached to a stick of metal poking out the top. The outer tinfoil layer gets a serious shock and before the outer layer people would have their hand on it so they would get a serious shock