Capacitor
part · 1745 · Early modern era
Stores electric charge.
Inventors: Ewald Georg von Kleist, Питер ван Мушенбрук.
Principles and materials it uses
- Capacitance — uses. It stores charge thanks to capacitance.
- Glass — is made of. A Leyden jar is a glass vessel.
- Tin — is made of. The plates are made of tin foil.
Where it is used
- Oscillator — is part of. An LC circuit.
- RAM — is part of. A DRAM bit is stored in a tiny capacitor.
- Photographic flash — is part of. Energy is stored in a capacitor.
- Defibrillator — is part of. The energy of the shock is stored in a capacitor.
- Implantable defibrillator — is part of. A discharge capacitor.
- Tesla coil — is part of. A capacitor.
History: what it evolved from and what it influenced
- Leyden jar — evolved from. The Leyden jar was the first capacitor.
What it is a kind of
- Ceramic capacitor — includes. A capacitor.
- Electrolytic capacitor — includes. A capacitor.
- Supercapacitor — includes. A supercapacitor is a capacitor of huge capacity that charges in seconds.