A capacitor is an electronic device that has the capacity to
store changes. It’s one of the most basic elements used in electronics. Its
invention was kind of the result of a discovery. In 1745, after his hand
suffering a terribe spark German physicist, Ewald Georg von Kleist discovered
that-held jar could store change after disconnecting it form a high voltage
electrostatic generator. It was only much later understood how the glass jar
that had a film of metal on the inside and outside worked as a capacitor after
being charged.
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The capacitor earned its popularity when the invention was
taken advantage of by Faraday when he wanted to store the electrons of his
experiments. The capacitor is now an essential part of almost every electronic
circuit. Its most obvious application is storing energy as in batteries and its
property of storing change has been used to implement data storage. To know how
the capacitor works from this brief would be a tad high expectation but it
would suffice to say that the capacitor is essential and atomic to electronics.
