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Where does all the weird Chinese component terminology come from?

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Wallace Gasiewicz:
As Niconiconi pointed out:

The name “transistor”  is actually     (“transconductance” + “varistor”)

How the transistor got it's name is from a Bell Labs "Ballot" in 1948:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/johngineer/6116137343/sizes/o/in/photostream/

So blame the Bell Engineers!

tooki:
Several of us quoted that text 2 days ago…

Wallace Gasiewicz:
Sorry, did not click on that particular link.

tooki:

--- Quote from: Wallace Gasiewicz on July 23, 2022, 01:17:23 pm ---Sorry, did not click on that particular link.

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No, I mean the text in question (not just a link to it) is literally quoted in the text of several posts:


--- Quote from: niconiconi on July 22, 2022, 01:58:10 am ---

Terminology for Semiconductor Triodes - Committee Recommendation - Case 38139-8. May 28, 1948. https://web.archive.org/web/20080528164454if_/http://users.arczip.com/rmcgarra2/namememo.gif


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- Transistor. This is an abbreviated combination of the words "transconductance" or "transfer", and "varistor". The device logically belongs in the varistor family, and has the transconductance or transfer impedance of a device having gain, so that this combination is descriptive.


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--- Quote from: tooki on July 21, 2022, 10:41:47 pm ---I thought transistor was short for transfer resistor.

Edit: wiki says the following:


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--- Quote ---Transistor. This is an abbreviated combination of the words "transconductance" or "transfer", and "varistor". The device logically belongs in the varistor family, and has the transconductance or transfer impedance of a device having gain, so that this combination is descriptive.

— Bell Telephone Laboratories — Technical Memorandum (May 28, 1948)
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amc184:
One of the ones I noticed on LCSC was 'horn type' capacitors.  This was used for snap-in electrolytics, and while the leads do resemble an animal's horns, I've never heard this used in English.  That seems to have disappeared from LCSC now though, and they've just put all the snap-in capacitors with the radial leaded ones.

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