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Definition of Crystal detector
1. Noun. A detector consisting of a fine wire in contact with a galena crystal; acts as a rectifier.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crystal Detector
Literary usage of Crystal detector
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Radio Phone Receiving: A Practical Book for Everybody by Erich Hausmann, Alfred Norton Goldsmith, Louis Alan Hazeltine, John V. L. Hogan, John Harold Morecroft, Frank Emanuel Canavaciol, Robert D. Gibson, Paul C. Hoernel (1922)
"Typical crystal detector Set. — Figure 26 illustrates the wiring diagram of a
crystal detector set which, although elaborate, will afford good tuning ..."
2. "WWJ--The Detroit News": The History of Radiophone Broadcasting by the by Detroit news (1922)
"The main part of this crystal detector is a substance mined out of the ...
A crystal detector comprises a small lump of crystal of no particular ..."
3. Radio Receiving for Beginners by Rhey T. Snodgrass, Victor Camp (1922)
"Ill RECEIVING WITH A crystal detector FROM the standpoint of low cost and ...
This will be a crystal detector set. That is, one in which the detector, ..."
4. Manual of Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony by Archie Frederick Collins (1913)
"Action of a crystal detector.—When electric oscillations pass through a ...
The crystal detector is current operated; that is, its action depends on the ..."
5. Bulletin by United States (1918)
"What is the advantage of the crystal detector over the "tikker," if any?
Which kinds are used in the ... Explain briefly how a crystal detector works. ..."
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