A surface-mount tantalum capacitor. By Epop [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Tantalum electrolytic capacitors were first manufactured for military purposed in the 1930s. These used wound ...

The pioneering years in the history of capacitors was a time when capacitors were used primarily for gaining an early understanding of electricity, predating the discovery even of the electron.

However, although the computer might have functioned even with the capacitor fitted the wrong way around, enthusiasts replacing it with a tantalum capacitor might find themselves in trouble.

Capacitor Metals is gaining progress towards the potential mining of Tantalum and Niobium at the site of the Blue River ...

A mixture of powdered tantalum and tantalum oxide is used in mobile phone capacitors, components that store electrical charge and control the flow of current. What makes the elements ideal for phones, ...

A capacitor made out of the precious metal tantalum. The silver-gray tantalum beads, in the form of compacted powder, can store a lot of charge relative to their mass. This enables smaller ...