In the April issue of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, I mentioned that the History Committee is interested in receiving proposals for possible IEEE Milestones. Recently, one Milestone possibility was suggested that is quite unique from ones that have been discussed so far and also it was local to me. This is the Thompson-Lampard calculable capacitor [1]. A.M. (Mel) Thompson found experimentally that the capacitance between opposite pairs of cylinders was independent of the diameter of the cylinders. He called on the mathematical expertise of a colleague, Doug G. Lampard, to investigate this further. Out of Lampard's work came a theorem in electromagnetics [1] that was detailed in a publication in 1957 [2].

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静电学中的电容定理 [从历史上讲]

在 4 月号的 IEEE 天线与传播杂志，我提到历史委员会有兴趣接收有关可能的 IEEE 里程碑的提案。最近，有人提出了一个里程碑可能性，它与目前讨论的那些可能性非常独特，而且对我来说也是本地的。这是 Thompson-Lampard 可计算电容器 [1]。AM (Mel) Thompson 通过实验发现，相对的圆柱对之间的电容与圆柱的直径无关。他呼吁同事 Doug G. Lampard 的数学专业知识对此进行进一步调查。从兰帕德的工作中得出了一个电磁学定理 [1]，该定理在 1957 年的出版物 [2] 中有详细介绍。