A capacitor is a passive electronic component with two terminals that stores electrical energy by building up electric charge on two closely spaced surfaces kept insulated from each other. It was originally called a condenser, a name that survives in a few compound terms such as the condenser microphone, and is sometimes shortened informally to cap. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Pieter van Musschenbroek (14 March 1692 - 19 September 1761) was a Dutch scientist credited with the invention of a pioneering capacitor design in the Leyden jar in 1746.
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A capacitor is a device that stores electrical energy by accumulating electric charges on two closely spaced surfaces that are insulated from each other.
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Invented By: Ewald Georg von Kleist, History
In October 1745, Ewald Georg von Kleist of Pomerania, Germany, found that charge could be stored by connecting a high-voltage electrostatic generator by a wire to a volume of water in a hand-held glass jar.
Invented By: Pieter van Musschenbroek, History
The following year, the Dutch physicist Pieter van Musschenbroek invented a similar capacitor, which was named the Leyden jar, after the University of Leiden where he worked.
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