context1: In New Zealand, a flagon refers to a glass vessel filled with draught beer available in public bars or <strong>bottle</strong> stores. Drinkers could take their own washed flagons or swap their empties for those pre-filled, corked and ready for sale. The flagon was followed by the half-gallon <strong>jar</strong> and was preceded by the square rigger and the bluey.
context2: William Watson, when experimenting with the Leyden <strong>jar</strong>, discovered in 1747 that a discharge of static electricity was equivalent to an electric current. The capacitive property, now and for many years availed of in the electric condenser, was first observed by Von Kleist of Leyden in 1754. Von Kleist happened to hold, near his electric machine, a small <strong>bottle</strong>, in the neck of which there was an iron nail.