Back before cell phones … before video games … before television … even before electric radios, there were crystal radio receivers. In the early 1920s and 1930s, magazines offered instructions on how ...
Marked: "Martian / Big Four / Newark, New Jersey / Pat. Pend.". A crystal radio detector with binding posts for headphone connections on top, posts for antenna and ground connections on bottom.
No nameplate or maker's marking. A fixed inductance coil with sliding control and crystal detector. Inductance of the tuning coil is varied by a slider. Binding posts on wooden base. A .0003 mfd.
Crystal radios are old news, but great fun. What would happen if a PhD designed a crystal set? By PhD we mean Pizza Hut Deliveryperson and [John Greenlee] (who may not actually be a PhD of either kind ...
Built in 1938 by Edwin Howard Armstrong, the 425-foot structure remains one of the tallest landmarks in Bergen County.
Did you know you can build your very own working 3D-printed radio — without any soldering, electronics experience, electric cord, or even batteries? That’s exactly what talented Houston, Texas-based ...
The author is a former engineer at WCRB(AM/FM), WSSH and WFGL/WFMP. He has also been a contract engineer and a manufacturer of SCA receivers and EAS equipment for television. I am opposed to the ...