[Hallicrafters] OT: Condenser term

[ARDUJENSKI at aol.com]

FOR WHAT IT IS WORTH: in reading old literature they use the term condenser 
and capacitor interchangeably. I stumbled across where the term CONDENSER was 
derived.

*A Leyden jar is a device that early experimenters used to help build and 
store electric energy.  It was also referred to as a "condenser" because many 
people thought of electricity as fluid or matter that could be condensed. 
Nowadays someone familiar with electrical terminology call it a capacitor. *

http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/~eugeniik/instruments/archaic/leyden_jars.htm

Ok so it is not some great revelation

Alan KB7MBI in Woodinville, WA
FISTS 5702 / ARS / Proud member of ARRL
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