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The Leyden Jar Project

"The magic of the Leyden Jar may have worn off over time as it metamorphosed from object of beauty and fascination to an everyday workhorse in the nineteenth century electrical physicist’s laboratory, and yet, it still harbored secrets. Under Michael Faraday’s watchful gaze, the Leyden Jar at last breathed forth the source of its elusive charms. Faraday’s nearly 30 years of electrical experiments would form the basis, along with James Clerk Maxwell’s mathematical underpinnings, of modern electromagnetic field theory. The Maxwell-Faraday theory was a bridge not only to Albert Einstein’s insights into relativity, but also lay the theoretical groundwork for the development of radio technology."

Propolis Press was established by Karen Randall in 2001 for the purpose of printing fine letterpress artists books with poetry by innovative, contemporary authors.

The philosophy of Propolis Press is that there should be no one-size-fits-all approach to poetic texts. Each text has its own unique DNA that should guide the morphogenesis of the book.

The publications of Propolis Press are in the collections of Brown, Columbia, Stanford and Yale Universities; the Universities of Buffalo, Chicago and Iowa; Connecticut, Dartmouth, Swarthmore, Smith, Trinity, Union, Wellesley and Wesleyan Colleges; and The Library of Congress.

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The New York School

Within the Probabilities of Spelling

The Leyden Jar Project