On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:03:44 -0400, Punjab The Sailor Man
wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Joel Koltner wrote:
Hmm... this may be a terminology thing, but why would electronics want to
"traverse the electrolyte to the cathode?" Since electrons presumably want to
flow from a cathode to an anode by definition?

Thanks for the post, Michael.

---Joel


The book was published in 1933.


The selenium rectifier was also invented in 1933 by C.E.Fitts.

The electrolytic rectifier must have been a lab experiment that never
got off the ground. I never heard of one.

They were used, ca 1920 or so, as cheap, home-made battery-charger
rectifiers, for people who couldn't afford tungar bulbs.

John