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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professor's heroic speech led to the closing of The Netherlands' famed 365-year-old University of Leyden was last week revealed by Leydeners in Manhattan who had just received a full report smuggled from their home town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Why Leyden Was Closed | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

Exhibited are a model of an early battery, models developed in 1790 to show the use of Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod, a portable electric machine of 1790 for medical treatment, early examples of Leyden jars embodying the first use of the condenser principle, and an early 17th century loadstone in a metal case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 4/16/1940 | See Source »

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