[Lowfer] Capacitor value in centimeters?

[k2ors at verizon.net]

Great link!
My favorite line:
"Actually, van Musschenbroek's very first 'condenser' was nothing more than a beer glass!"


73 Warren K2ORS
          WD2XGJ
          WD2XSH/23
          WE2XEB/2
          WE2XGR/1


Nov 29, 2010 02:17:13 PM, outposter30 at shaw.ca wrote:

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>I probably should have said the Leyden Jar is the original condensor 
>(rather than capacitor).
>
> 73 Warren K2ORS
>          WD2XGJ
>          WD2XSH/23
>          WE2XEB/2
>          WE2XGR/1
>
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> Nov 29, 2010 02:12:46 PM, lowfer at mailman.qth.net wrote:
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> Jars refers to the Leyden Jar (the original capacitor).
> 1MicroFarad = 900 Jars or to  put it another way 1Jar = 1.11111 nF
>
>
> 73 Warren K2ORS
>          WD2XGJ
>          WD2XSH/23
>          WE2XEB/2
>          WE2XGR/1
>
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> Nov 29, 2010 02:03:11 PM, k5wms at centurytel.net wrote:
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> See 
> http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/tutorials/java/capacitor/index.html
>
> Quote" originally capatance was measured in jars, now we use farads in
> honor of Michael Faraday.."
>
> Doesnt give conversion
>
> Paul k5wms
>
> Quoting John Bruce McCreath :
>> Hello Lowfers,
>>
>> I have a book titled "Handbook of Technical Instructions for Wireless
>> Telegraphists" dated 1918.
>> In it, the value of capacitors (condensers) is expressed in
>> centimetres and/or
>> jars, both of which
>> mean nothing to me.  I did a quick Google search for a conversion formula 
>> or
>> table, but no luck.
>> Anyone here know how to convert capacitance expressed in centimetres into
>> terminology that
>> we use today?
>>
>> 73, J.B., VE3EAR
>>
>> LowFER Beacon "EAR"
>> 188.830 kHz. QRSS30
>> EN93dr
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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