[ARC5] Radios in the Movies

[AKLDGUY .]

>From my archives, I brought out my May 1938 issue of Radio magazine.
In articles submitted by readers, the word is 'condenser' throughout,
but when I got to the advertising section I found:

Cornell-Dubilier - 'capacitor', pg 67
Mallory - 'condenser', pg 75
Transoil - 'capacitor', pg 78
General Electric - 'capacitor', pg 85
Bud Radio - 'condenser', pg 86
Cardwell - 'condenser', pg 89
Aerovox - 'capacitor', pg 91

It seems that a transition to 'capacitor' had already started by 1938.

73 de Neil ZL1ANM


On 2/22/16, Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>      Well, this is a dead horse now but I will beat it just the same. I
> just ran across an ad from Solar, once a major manufacturer of
> capacitors, in QST. Its dated July 1946, the name of the company is
> Solar Capacitor Sales Co and the product is described as "capacitors".
> So the term was in use at least in the mid-1940s.
>      BTW, does anyone know what happened to Solar?  They seem to have
> disappeared around the late 1940s along with Micamold.
>
> 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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