File:Pyrite cat whisker detector.jpg
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English: Photo of a "Pyron" detector, from a 1914 amateur radio book. Contact with the crystal of iron pyrite (fool's gold) is facilitated by means of a fine wire mounted on one end of a variable positioning mechanism. It was manufactured by the Wireless Specialty Apparatus Co. Alterations to image: cropped out second image of detector. |
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| Source | Downloaded 2009-11-08 from Alfred Powell Morgan (1914) Wireless Telegraph Construction for Amateurs, 3rd Ed., p. 199, fig. 163 on Google Books |
| Author | Alfred Powell Morgan |
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Public domain in USA - published in USA prior to 1923 |
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| current | 11:14, 3 May 2021 | | 548 × 372 (121 KB) | Materialscientist | rotation, FFT |
| 17:20, 8 November 2009 |  | 548 × 372 (86 KB) | Chetvorno | {{Information |Description={{en|Photo of a "Wikipedia:cat's whisker detector", an antique radio component used in early crystal radio receivers, from a 1914 amateur radio book. This was called a "Pyron" type. It consisted of a fine wire on an adjus |
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