Leyden SA was founded on September 21, 1943 by Eng. Saúl Cervantes Bianchi, and is currently the only factory of capacitors in the country and one of the three that manufactures medium voltage capacitors in Latin America.

Its logo is extracted directly from that first "Bottle of Leyden", which gave origin to the capacitor, crossing with effort, dedication, work, and specialized engineering the decades that disembark them in the XXI century, with the same force that its partner founder.

History:

In the year 1746 a Dutch physicist named Pieter van Musschenbroek belonging to the University of Leyden discovers the first capacitor, and calls it in honor of the University and City from which he was a native "Bottle of Leyden". Although simultaneously the same device was discovered by the German inventor Ewald Georg von Kleist, the name of the "Bottle of Leyden" remained in history as one of the great discoveries of science.

The first capacitor consisted of a glass bottle partially filled with water and covered with a cork traversed at its center by a cable with one of its ends submerged in the water. When the cable was connected to a source of static energy the bottle was charged, and could be discharged by connecting its central terminal to a point of zero potential (earth).

The "Leyden Bottle" evolved rapidly into a glass container with thin metal foils inside and outside. A metal rod passed through the insulating cover making contact with the inner sheet. Between the internal and external plates a potential difference was applied that caused the "Leyden Bottle" to be charged. Once charged it could be unloaded by bringing the central conductor to the external plate, producing the dielectric perforation of the air by means of a spark.

The "Leyden Bottle" soon found interesting practical applications to store static energy, one of the most traditional was the Wimshurst machine.

At that time the applications of the "Bottle of Leyden" were so important that you can see different models and designs in many museums of the world of the specialty, but they all keep the same principle of operation.

Since the time of Rembrandt one of the greatest exponents of Dutch painting of the seventeenth century, which had also been born in Leyden in 1606 (as recorded in his prints), the city has undergone major changes and is now called Leiden, but still keeps in its streets and canals a proud past linked to science and art.