crystal set

English

Noun

crystal set (plural crystal sets)

1. (electronics) 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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

an early kind of radio receiver

• Catalan: ràdio de galena f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: krystalapparat n, krystalmodtager c
• Dutch: kristalontvanger (nl)
• Finnish: kideradio
• 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