Leyden ball Leyden ball A Leyden ball is a fictional bullet used in the nineteenth century Jules Verne science fiction novel, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". It contains a capacitance charge of electrical energy, which discharges instantaneously upon the bullet's impact. A similar, but more complex non-lethal electronic weapon, meant to disable people, has been developed for police use in the modern day. In his 1870 science fiction classic "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", Jules Verne wrote about a hunting expedition using a very unusual form of bullet: the balls sent by this gun are not ordinary balls, but little
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea the Sea"." "The Toilers of the Sea" also contains an episode where a worker fights a giant octopus, wherein the octopus symbolizes the Industrial Revolution. It is probable that Verne borrowed the symbol, but used it to allude to the Revolutions of 1848 as well, in that the first man to stand against the "monster" and the first to be defeated by it is a Frenchman. In several parts of the book, Captain Nemo is depicted as a champion of the world's underdogs and downtrodden. In one passage, Captain Nemo is mentioned as providing some help to Greeks rebelling against