crystal set
an early, tubeless radio receiver using a crystal detector.
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How to use crystal set in a sentence
He addressed Gus, who was laying out the hook-up for a crystal set.
Radio Boys Loyalty | Wayne Whipple"It may seem like one, but it's really the same kind of circuit you find in a crystal set," Rick explained.
The Blue Ghost Mystery | Harold Leland GoodwinIt is as easy to build a vacuum tube set as a crystal set and only a very little more expensive.
Radio Boys Loyalty | Wayne WhippleA quartz crystal set in the centre of the front of the cross probably held the relic.
The Glories of Ireland | Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. LennoxClocker remembered the crystal set his father had bought when radio was still a toy.
At the Post | Horace Leonard Gold
British Dictionary definitions for crystal set
an early form of radio receiver having a crystal detector to demodulate the radio signals but no amplifier, therefore requiring earphones
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