08-12-2016, 11:39 PM
Point taken, Mark.
Referring to other aspects of this thread, I'm surprised that he terms nano, etc, are so new. Various branches of science seem to always be dealing with such minuscule quantities of this, that and the other that I thought they would have come up with them a long time ago.
Can anybody come up with a derivation of the term 'condenser' as in the title of this thread? A capacitor doesn't condense anything, to my mind, so how did it originate - and why?
Capacitor was another term that only came into use in the early 60s but rapidly took over. However, this acceptance didn't extend to the automotive industry. True, there was probably only one in a car - and that was almost certainly retrofitted but with the explosion in the use of car radios and transistor radios in cars, interference suppression became a must, with cut-lead suppressors on the plug leads and the all important dynamo suppressor.
Long after the term capacitor reigned (almost) supreme, the RS - it might still have been Radiospares in those days - catalogue contained one item which would have been found in any service department that sold parts to the public or fitted car radios, which was shown both in the catalogue and on the component packaging as an ' Interference Suppression Condenser'!
Referring to other aspects of this thread, I'm surprised that he terms nano, etc, are so new. Various branches of science seem to always be dealing with such minuscule quantities of this, that and the other that I thought they would have come up with them a long time ago.
Can anybody come up with a derivation of the term 'condenser' as in the title of this thread? A capacitor doesn't condense anything, to my mind, so how did it originate - and why?
Capacitor was another term that only came into use in the early 60s but rapidly took over. However, this acceptance didn't extend to the automotive industry. True, there was probably only one in a car - and that was almost certainly retrofitted but with the explosion in the use of car radios and transistor radios in cars, interference suppression became a must, with cut-lead suppressors on the plug leads and the all important dynamo suppressor.
Long after the term capacitor reigned (almost) supreme, the RS - it might still have been Radiospares in those days - catalogue contained one item which would have been found in any service department that sold parts to the public or fitted car radios, which was shown both in the catalogue and on the component packaging as an ' Interference Suppression Condenser'!
