crystal set

crystal set

English

Alternative forms

• crystal radio
• crystal radio receiver
• cat's whisker receiver

Noun

crystal set (plural crystal sets)

1. 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