Crossword-Solution: CAPACITOR 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

When I approached the receiver my hand produced the whistle." Norman: "Hand capacity effect." Takis: "And foot capacity effect as well! When I approached my knee to the metal leg of the work-bench I would lose the station I had been listening to." He said the tuning capacitor he had made was obviously too small and he had to alter the taps on the coil continuously.

When, on April 5, Voyager 2’s radio reception was switched from the primary to the secondary receiver, flight engineers found that they were unable to communicate with the spacecraft—the secondary receiver’s tracking loop capacitor was malfunctioning.

Not only was electricity cheaper in the first place, but the wasted power would be minimal and the "prime mover"--the capacitor itself--simply would not wear out.

The Leyden jar capacitor and boxlike transformer (below) represent an application of Marconi’s invention in World War I for national defense, maritime safety, and commercial communications._ _At South Wellfleet Marconi first built a circular antenna consisting of 20 ship masts 200 feet high about 165 feet back from the edge of the ridge overlooking the Atlantic.