File:Electrolytic detector.jpg
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English: An electrolytic detector, a primitive device used to demodulate radio waves in early radio receivers around the turn of the century. It consists of a metal cup containing a dilute solution of nitric acid and a fine platinum wire on an adjustable arm with the tip dipping in the acid. |
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| Source | Retrieved 9 November 2013 from Harry Winfield Secor, Sidney Gernsback, Austin Celestin Lescarboura (1912) Wireless Course in Twenty Lessons, Electro Importing Co., New York, p. 79, fig. 10 on Google Books |
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