Wireless crystal receiver

Wireless radio receiver, c1908. Featured a wooden board with a cylinder attached and a copper wire wound tightly around the cylinder.
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Title:
Wireless crystal receiver
NFSA ID
1738017
Year
1908
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Crystal sets are the simplest type of radio receiver.

Named for the crystal detector, used to regulate the electrical current emitted by a radio signal, they were simple to construct, inexpensive and required no additional power supply.

However, crystal sets could only receive signals within a small geographic range and listeners needed headphones to hear radio broadcasts.

This model is c1908. 

 

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