crystal set

English

Alternative forms

crystal radio
crystal radio receiver
cat's whisker receiver

Noun

crystal set (plural crystal sets)

An early radio receiver, having no electrical power supply except the radio waves themselves; it used a crystal of lead or cadmium sulphide and a wire (the cat's whisker) touching the crystal's surface.

Translations

an early kind of radio receiver

Catalan: ràdio de galena f
Danish: krystalapparat n, krystalmodtager c
Dutch: kristalontvanger (nl)
French: récepteur à cristal m, poste à galène (fr) m, poste de radio à cristal m
German: Detektorempfänger m, Detektorradio n
Italian: radio a galena f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: krystallapparat n, krystallmottaker m

Nynorsk: krystallapparat n, krystallmottakar m

Portuguese: rádio de galena m
Russian: дете́кторный приёмник m (detéktornyj prijómnik)
Spanish: radio a galena f
Swedish: kristallapparat c, kristallmottagare (sv) c
Volapük: kristadaparat

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