Most crystal radio receivers have a decidedly “field expedient” look to them. Fashioned as they often are from a few turns of wire around an oatmeal container and a safety pin scratching the surface ...

And that was fair enough. I’d had more than a few warnings. My love was pale blue, plastic and mostly sat in my shirt pocket. I was infatuated by her small assembly of bits, bobs and thin wires: one ...

Back before cell phones … before video games … before television … even before electric radios, there were crystal radio receivers. In the early 1920s and 1930s, magazines offered instructions on how ...

A crystal radio set is almost like magic. Sound appears, seemingly out of nowhere, powered not by cords and batteries, but by the very air around you. “You can’t quite work out how it comes alive,” ...

A staple of starting off in electronics ion years past was the crystal set radio, an extremely simple AM radio receiver with little more than a tuned circuit and a point contact diode as its ...