[ARC5] Radios in the Movies

[John Saxon]

In the index for the 1956 ARRL Handbook:  "condenser (see Capacitor)"   Prior to this issue, "condenser" was the term used, although "capacitance" was discussed.
--JohnK5ENQ


      From: Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
 To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net 
 Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 3:22 PM
 Subject: Re: [ARC5] Radios in the Movies
   
    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.  
  
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