Scott Walsh <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> wrote:

> No need to apologise. In fact you are in a sense right as a VERY
> long time ago capacitors used to be know as CONDENSORS.
>
> real old telepgraph equipment used in the early 1900's .... is
> where I first saw a capacitor called a condensor.

Scott:

For what it's worth, the capacitor that's placed across the points in
automotive contact-point ignitions is STILL called a "condensor".

-Andy

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