[ARC5] Radios in the Movies

[Chris Bowne]

I remember certain people charging up capacitors with healthy DC voltages and then leaving them lying around the countertops in high school physics lab...

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> On Feb 16, 2016, at 16:22, Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
>    I was going to reply that you are surely wrong but I looked at several books published between about 1922 and 1947 and could not find the term "capacitor" used. Its always condenser although the property of a condenser is described as capacitance.  I am not sure how large a "condenser" (or capacitor either) existed in the 1890s and am not sure how to find out.  Certainly, there was high voltage, in fact very high voltage, so its possible a capacitor large enough to kill could have existed.  This sounds like an interesting series.  
> 
>> On 2/16/2016 12:37 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
>>> On 16 Feb 2016 at 19:35, John Saxon via ARC5 wrote:
>>> 
>>> On the PBS murder mystery "Murdock Mysteries"  Murdock reported to the 
>>> authorities that the victim had been electrocuted by a huge 'capacitor.'  The
>>> setting of this series is in 19th century England.  According to my research,
>>> they were not called 'capacitors' until mid-50s.  Previously, they were known
>>> as 'condensers.'
>> ...or Leyden jars...
>> 
>> Ken W7EKB
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