In the British Admiralty, 19th century – 1937, a unit of electrical capacitance equal to the electrical capacitance of a standard 1-pint glass tankard, filled with brine and covered with tin foil, forming a Leyden jar. 1 jar = 10/9 nanofarads.
The Admiralty began phasing out the jar in 1937 (by A.F.O. 1552/37ยน), using the farad instead.
William S. Harris.
Philosophical Magazine, vol 4, page 436 (1834).
1. Admiralty Handbook of Wireless Telegraphy, volume 1,
Magnetism and Electricity.
London: H.M.S.O., 1938.
Page A2. See also the definition in section 168.
In Ireland, an imperial pint of beer.
Terence Patrick Dolan.
A Dictionary of Hiberno-English. The Irish Use of English.
Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1998.
Page 148.
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