Naturally, any discovery made by such a famous person would soon be heralded from one end of Europe to the other.

And so when this professor of Leyden made his discovery, the apparatus came to be called the "Leyden jar," for want of a better name.

There can be little doubt that Musschenbroek made his discovery entirely independently of any knowledge of Von Kleist's, or, for that matter, without ever having heard of the Pomeranian, and his actions in the matter are entirely honorable.
His discovery was the result of an accident.

While experimenting to determine the strength of electricity he suspended a gun-barrel, which he charged with electricity from a revolving glass globe.

From the end of the gun-barrel opposite the globe was a brass wire, which extended into a glass jar partly filled with water.