[AT] Names that have become generic

[Brian VanDragt]

In that case, I guess my original question still stands.  Why is a capacitor
used in an ignition system called a condenser?  I thought maybe there was
some difference between the two.  I guess it doesn't matter.  I'm a ME
anyway.

Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean VP" <deanvp at att.net>
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Subject: RE: [AT] Names that have become generic


> 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
> Snohomish, WA 98290
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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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