[AT] Names that have become generic

[Larry D. Goss]

You should have seen the sections that I removed before sending, Cecil.
It contained a bunch of slanderous, libelous, invectives that took
modern education to task and blamed all our troubles on graduate
assistants in the classroom who don't speak ANY language clearly.


Larry

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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Cecil E
Monson
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 6:08 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Names that have become generic

> I only have to go back to the early 70's to find literature that
> officially calls those things "condensers."  And THAT happens to be on
> some tractor literature.
> 
> [major soap box oration deleted]
> 
> Larr


	Very nice soapbox explanation of the use of the word
"condenser",
Larry. You don't have to go back very far to find the word in general
useage either. On page 507 of my 1948 Radio Amateur's Handbook, it lists
the color codes for mica, molded paper and tubular ceramic condensers.
The word condenser is in general useage throughout this 600 page manual.

	A lot of us in those days used the term condenser more than we
did the term capacitor. Some used the term exclusively for electrolytics
and the word capacitor for the dry types.

	The term was in general useage, as you say, for many years and
only lately when someone somewhere decided it was no longer correct, was
there an attempt to stop us from using the term.

	Personally I think the term was first used to refer to those
heavy
electrolytics that held such a heavy charge that they could kill you if
you got across the terminals by accident. I had several large condensers
that were approximately pint size in my ham shack and got across the
terminals of one of them by accident one day and it put me on the floor
gasping for breath.

	I operated a large commercial warehouse that was formerly the
headquarters for a supermarket chain called "Market Basket Stores" at
one
time. They had large heavy equipment in the buildings that used heavy
condenser banks to start electrical equipment. I would say there was a
helluva lot of energy "condensed" in that bank.  ;-)

Cecil
-- 
The nicest thing about telling the truth is you never have to wonder
what you said.

Cecil E Monson
Lucille Hand-Monson
Mountainville, New York   Just a little east of the North Pole

Allis Chalmers tractors and equipment

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