History Of The Capacitor – The Modern Era
The pioneering years in the history of capacitors was a time when capacitors were used primarily for gaining an early understanding of electricity, predating the discovery even of the electron. It was also a time for doing parlor demonstrations, such as having a line of people holding hands and discharging a capacitor through them. The modern era of capacitors begins in the late 1800s with the dawning of the age of the practical application of electricity, requiring reliable capacitors with specific properties.
Leyden Jars
One such practical use was in Marconi’s wireless spark-gap transmitters starting just before 1900 and into …read more
