[AT] Names that have become generic

[Howard R. Weeks]

To me, they will always be condensers rather than capacitors.
They were condensers in all the old reference books 20s - 50s.

Cycles will always be cycles rather than hertz.

Howard Weeks
Harlem, GA


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Larry D. Goss <rlgoss at evansville.net>
To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group' <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 11:26 PM
Subject: RE: [AT] Names that have become generic


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.  My dad referred to "those
things" as condensers when he was discussing electronics with me back in
the late 40's.  He finally learned to call them capacitors when it
became politically correct to do so.  That was sometime after he started
working with transistors in the late 50's.  BTW- Dad never did learn to
refer to AIEE instead of IEEE.  He called it the "eye triple-E" until
the day he died.  In the mid-50's we called those things condensers when