[AT] Names that have become generic

[Dean VP]

Brian:

No wonder, a ME would never understand!  :-) I suspect the term "condenser"
got coined in the early days of automobile development. 

It probably just stuck in that industry.  Here is an interesting web site
defining the meaning of condenser"

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/condenser

I suppose there is a chance that the Physics people called them "condensers"
and the electrical people called them "Capacitors" 


Here is an interesting tidbit:

Condensers vs. Capacitors
The name "capacitor" was given in the US due to its capacity for charging
electricity. When capacitors were introduced to Japan, the English word
"capacitor" was translated as "chikudenki," which means a component that can
condense and store electricity. Later, people in Japan thought it was called
condenser in the US when they retranslated it into English. That is the
reason the electric component called capacitor in the US is still called
condenser in Japan.
Moreover, in another theory it used to be called the "condenser" in the
world, but recently there is also an opinion of having came to be called
"capacitor".

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
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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

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> 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
>
> CRS = Having a Photographic Memory but a shortage of unused film.
>
> www.deerelegacy.com
>
> http://members.cox.net/classicweb/email.htm
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [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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