[AT] Names that have become generic

[Dean VP]

Brian:

I don't recall "ALL" capacitors being called "Condensers" and I was trained
as a EE in the late 50's.  My recollection is the term "condensers" was and
is only used in the automotive/tractor environment. 

Dean A. Van Peursem
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Brian VanDragt
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 6:34 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Names that have become generic

Larry,
You're right, I wasn't born until after the early 70's.  I had no idea that
all capacitors used to be called condensers.  Why would they change a
perfectly good name for something to something else?  Now my original
question has been answered and I have learned something.

Thanks,
Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry D. Goss"


> The problem is some of you guys are just too danged young.  You think
>that because you learned a particular name for a device when you were in
>school it must have always been named that.

> 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.

> Larry

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