Parallel Plate Capacitor

In the mid-18th century, during a period known as the Enlightenment, two scientists, Ewald Georg von Kleist and Pieter van Musschenbroek, independently stumbled upon a groundbreaking discovery. They found that electric charge could be stored—this was the birth of the capacitor. The earliest capacitor was the Leyden Jar, named after the University of Leyden where … Read more