Mike Kendall wrote:
>A condensor is a capacitor in English.  That is why the company "Cardwell
>Condensor" in the USA is named such.  It is just a little old fashioned for
>most peoples vocabularies.


Back in the old days [I have seen old pictures ;-)], variable condensors
were those things with big movable metal plates. They must have thought
that electrons "condensed" out of the ether, and deposited onto those
plates, and this was how charge was stored.

Today's use of the word "capacitor" [older capacitator ???] makes a
lot more sense, of course - the english do have a way with words.

Better than "charge storage box", I guess - which is prolly what
some literal american would have named it.

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