[ARC5] More Condenser/Capacitor Trivia

[Dennis DuVall]

Did a quick check in my library.  They were “condensers" in Terman’s 1937 edition.  The RCA "Radiation Designer’s Handbook" used both terms in it’s 1941 edition.  My college “Radio Electronics” textbook (1956) used “capacitor.”  The ARRL Handbooks were still using “condenser" in 1952 but had switched to “capacitor” by 1960.  "The Radio Handbook"  (Editors and Engineers), however,  was using  “capacitor” as early as 1947.

Dennis D.  W7QHO
Glendale, CA

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