FW: incand lamps debate [wasRe: [LINK] Here's one that will snaga few]

[Eleanor Lister]

Howard Lowndes wrote:
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>
> Adam Todd wrote:
>> At 06:04 PM 22/02/2007, Daniel Rose wrote:
>>> SNIP.
>>>
>>> It's alleged that you can 'harvest' the energy from a radio
>>> transmission, perhaps those of you with greater experience can confirm
>>> or debunk this.
>>
>> Yes you can.
>>
>> The most basic and comreghensive example of all time, is the CRYSTAL
>> RADIO!
>
> Ahh, happy childhood memories.  My first radio was a BTH [1] crystal
> set in a beaut wooden case with *two* galena crystals and cats
> whiskers just in case one went "off".  I remember my father modding it
> by replacing one of the crystals with some gizmo that was war surplus
> from radars, called a *diode*, encapsulated in a glass tube.  :)
>
> [1] British Thompson-Houston
>
i learned to make crystal radios with the following ingredients:

- a piece of wire tied to a water pipe
- the carbon rod out of a torch battery
- a razor blade
- a cheap earpiece
- another piece of wire sticky taped to my bedroom wall

i used to get into trouble listening to radio series and serials late at
night, like "Crime Doesn't Pay", so i learned to knock up one in 10
minutes, as they always got confiscated.

my vengeance was that i knocked off dad's razor blades!

criminally,
    EL

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