[AT] Names that have become generic

[Brian VanDragt]

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